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To: Valpal1

Actually thats the one we bought. Although I got it off the Campus Crusade for Christ website. Reading the Bible, I know that this is not even allegory.

http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/homemake/narnia.htm

Here's some reading for you. If you still want to go - enjoy.


81 posted on 06/28/2005 12:04:46 PM PDT by 3dognight
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To: 3dognight
ah, now we get to the heart of it... (i suspected it all along)

http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/believe.htm

"I have NO creed but the King James Bible."

... and all others are from the devil right?

93 posted on 06/28/2005 12:10:16 PM PDT by kpp_kpp
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To: 3dognight
From your link:

Lewis and Williams also drank and smoked together (2) which is hardly surprising considering how often drinking wine and strong drink is mentioned in Lewis' "children's" books!

Oh my, well that convinces me, all right! (rolls eyes)

Some more:

C.S. Lewis'
Sun Worship in the
Chronicles of Narnia

To begin with, "arslan" is said to be the Turkish word for "lion," and the most likely source for the name Aslan. The symbolism of a lion would not of itself be a particular problem if it were not for the other information which Lewis stealthily reveals regarding the particular lion he is writing about. Once the evidence has been examined it is certain that it is not "the Lion of the tribe of Juda" by any stretch of the imagination .

According to the Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and Symbols by Gertrude Jobes, the sun is "The active or male principle in nature, wanderer, lion, gold, symbolised by the bow and arrow."
The author of that site is an utter lunatic.
96 posted on 06/28/2005 12:11:26 PM PDT by malakhi
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To: 3dognight
Here's some reading for you. If you still want to go - enjoy.

I browsed your link. I hope you don't base all of your life decisions on the word of liars such as wrote this drivel of propaganda. I mean, really, linking Tolkien and Lewis to the Priory of Sion crap? If you take this sort of thing as truth, you have been seriously misled.

109 posted on 06/28/2005 12:18:59 PM PDT by LexBaird (tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: 3dognight

Lewis would agree with you about one thing you said here: he was adamant that his work was not allegory.


116 posted on 06/28/2005 12:23:16 PM PDT by twigs
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To: 3dognight

Well, I checked your link and sorry to say the writer is what I generally classify as a crank. He has a problem with mixing quotes from various sources and choosing fonts and bolding in such a way as confuse the reader as to which is what and from whom as well as being careless with quotation marks.

This is a sign of deliberate deception or disorganized thinking both in pursuit of an agenda or belief system.

If you read some of his non Narnia pages, he also makes some statements indicative of paranoid delusions of persecution and he filters his wife's and adult daughter's email before allowing them to read it (by his own statement warning against criticism of the womens pages).

Not someone I can take seriously either as a literary critic or as an advisor on theological matters, even though paranoids can have real enemies.


197 posted on 06/28/2005 1:11:10 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Crush jihadists, drive collaborators before you, hear the lamentations of their media. Allahu FUBAR!)
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To: 3dognight
Wow, that website you linked is NUTTY.

The guy clearly hasn't read the Narnia books carefully -- there are all sorts of errors throughout that section. (Arslan? huh? hate to see what he would do with that Calormen named Emeth . . .) And I see where you got your idea that there was "sun worship" in the book . . . straight from this guy's "analysis". He's really stretching to get that conclusion . . . since he's apparently ignorant of the traditional eastward (ad orientem) placement of Christian churches and altars and the many, many appellations of Christ as "Sun of Righteousness" (that's in Malachi, by the way), "Dayspring from on high" (and that's Luke), etc. etc. etc.

He seems to rely one hundred percent NOT on the "King James Bible" as he so proudly proclaims, but on his own personal and rather myopic interpretation of it (your mileage may vary). At the same time, he ignores the entire Western canon of theological thought. And since Lewis was a specialist in medieval and Renaissance literature, any examination of Lewis's books by this man simply highlights his ignorance rather than acting as any indictment of Lewis.

Frankly, if this fellow told me the sun rose in the East, I would go outside and check. You can do better than this guy, whoever he is.

245 posted on 06/29/2005 6:21:44 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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