Our book, Princess Bubble, mentions God. During the election media coverage I keep hearing 90% of Americans believe in God. We have been approached by many top notch literary agents and told we would have to remove God from our book if we wanted a publishing deal. Kim and I have said, "No thank you. Who succeeds by removing God?" Most people actually purchase our book when they read our message page where the fairy godmother tells Princess Bubble that "True happiness is not about finding a prince. Happiness comes from loving God, helping others and liking who you are already."
I did a quick Google search of other similar statistics. The 10% of Americans who not believe in God are the same number of people who also:
Have a drug disorder.
Do not use the internet.
Are sleep deprived.
Have never had pre-marital sex. (Adults)
Do not know what the saying "The other white meat" is referring to.
Live out their dreams.
Are happy about the amount of money they are saving
Recycle their cell phone.
Do not donate to any charity.
Will never be over weight.
Would we ever not mention diets or calories in our media because 10% of Americans will never be over weight and could possibly be offended? What about mentioning websites? 10% of Americans do not use the internet so maybe we should not mention sites in ads or go to paperless systems because of this group will not have access or understand.
I don't understand how we ended up in a place where we won't talk about something we believe in because we are being so sensitive to such a small group.
91 percent (virtually the same number who believe in God)-- told the pollsters that they had never had contact with aliens or known anyone who had. A similar number -- 93 percent -- said they had never been abducted or known anyone whisked away by beings from another planet.
Would we offend the people who have had contact or who have been abducted by aliens by making statement that we do not believe this has actually happened? Maybe. But, do we care? I highly doubt we would care.
I wonder if we wrote that true happily ever after came from being abducted by aliens and having contact with them-would this be something that publishers who rather see and parents would rather buy?
I feel we will succeed by standing true to what we believe and being like the 10% of Americans who follow their dreams. If you do not agree you may know or be a space cadet!
Happily Ever After!