New "Narnia" Film Stirs Religious Controversy [Aslan represents Mohammed too]

ABC News ^ | 12/9/10 | Paul Bond

[ZGuy]

The studios behind the new "Narnia" movie are walking a tightrope in their quest to promote the third film in the fantasy franchise to a Christian audience and to general moviegoers.

But they also are going out of their way not to pigeonhole the film as something that will appeal just to the world's 2.2 billion Christians.

Case in point is Liam Neeson, who voices Aslan, the resurrected lion in the upcoming film. The actor said at a news conference last week that his character doesn't necessarily represent Christ. That might be news to Lewis, though, who wrote the opposite before he died in 1963.

"Aslan symbolizes a Christlike figure, but he also symbolizes for me Mohammed, Buddha and all the great spiritual leaders and prophets over the centuries," Neeson said.

"Dawn Treader" producer Mark Johnson agrees with the, shall we say, more inclusive analysis from Neeson, telling The Hollywood Reporter that "resurrection exists in so many different religions in one form or another, so it's hardly exclusively Christian."

"We don't want to favor one group over another ... whether these books are Christian, I don't know," Johnson added.

[MrB]

RoT didn’t capitalize the ‘a’ in anti-Christ.

The Anti-Christ is the Beast of Revelation.
Being anti-Christ is just that - being against Christ.

Example: 1 John 4:2-3

[The_Reader_David]

As I noted to another poster who asked about other religions which teach resurrection:

• Norse paganism: Baldur the Beautiful
• Egyptian paganism: Osiris
• Pharisaic Judaism: belief in a general resurrection
• Islam: belief in a general resurrection

Lewis, himself pointed to pre-Christian pagan myths of a dying-and-rising god as evidence that God did not leave those outside his covenant with the Old Israel in complete darkness, referring to them as "good dreams" and suggesting that such myths were encouraged as preparation for the Gospel.

[Chickensoup]

See it, the actor is a fool.

He doesnt know or understand the story.

And he is so ignorant and caught in his PC correctness he doesnt know reality