John R. Erickson, author of the terrific Hank the Cowdog books for children, notes that writing and reading are deeply Christian: When God chose to give us the Bible, "He didn't draw pictures. God's law was written so that it could be read. [When Biblical authors] wanted to record the events they had witnessed, they wrote them down so that they could be read by future generations. The very act of reading binds us to a tradition that goes back to Mosaic law, the written Gospels, the Pauline epistles, the church councils, the King James Bible, Luther, Calvin, Aquinas and Augustine."
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