I was an obnoxious little know-it-all 10 year old who LOVED reading the Bible and apologetics. It’s possible this girl heard the statement and questioned it immediately since they are far less likely to take that statement the way an adult would, and would be more apt to see the sentence for the way it was structured (ie first half fake, second half real).
If I heard someone say that as a 10 year old I would have done the same, but my question would have been more akin to “do you think Jesus isn’t real? Or Superman is?”
I think people forget that as puberty approaches young people become less "kids" and more "retards in recovery" the fixations, mistreated logic etc come to the fore, but the THINKING is distinctly adult rather than kid. The experience that makes things make sense is still missing, but there's still a firm line.
Perfectly reasonable to me that a 10 year old would want to do this, or at least say they did, and then your parents force you to because that's good parenting.
I was an obnoxious little know-it-all 10 year old who LOVED reading the Bible and apologetics. It’s possible this girl heard the statement and questioned it immediately since they are far less likely to take that statement the way an adult would, and would be more apt to see the sentence for the way it was structured (ie first half fake, second half real).
If I heard someone say that as a 10 year old I would have done the same, but my question would have been more akin to “do you think Jesus isn’t real? Or Superman is?”
I think people forget that as puberty approaches young people become less "kids" and more "retards in recovery" the fixations, mistreated logic etc come to the fore, but the THINKING is distinctly adult rather than kid. The experience that makes things make sense is still missing, but there's still a firm line.
Perfectly reasonable to me that a 10 year old would want to do this, or at least say they did, and then your parents force you to because that's good parenting.