If I were to slip a book to all children, it would be a book so slippery that it slides them into a new domain, not of ideas, but of experiences and feelings.
Money is not real, consumable wealth. A book is not life. Idolizing a single book is like eating paper currency.
The use of a book, is to point beyond ourselves to a world of life and experiences, not to mere words or even ideas.
A compassionate and considerate deity wouldn’t destroy the human mind by making it rigid, unadaptable, or dependent upon one vague source for answers.
If I were to slip a book to all children, it would be a book so slippery that it slides them into a new domain.
It would be a slippery book that is temporary medicine, not a lifelong diet. It would be a point of departure, not a perpetual reference.
Youths would read this good book once and be done with it, for a compassionate and considerate deity would have written it so well and clearly that they would never need to re-read it to ferret out hidden meanings, interpret contradictions or seek clarification of obscurities.
Money is not consumable wealth and a book is not the answer to life.
Desert Dweller 