Posted on 10/16/2005 7:34:14 AM PDT by cloud8
Just imagine the critical uproar if they tried to make movies that were based on (and true to) some of the other OZ books that were written. P.C. is still alive and well.
We got the Narnia books for our kids when they were little. This will sound ridiculous, but in our Jewish household, the Christian part went right over our heads. The kids still liked them.
My very favorite Lewis book..."A Grief Observed"
I had the pleasure of hearing John Cleese read "The Screwtape Letters", too. What a hoot! CS Lewis' "Mere Christianity" was the biggest influence in my conversion. He's one of my favorite authors, too.
Aslan doesnt really make it plain that he is Jesus until the Last book. The christianity is there it just doesn't scream at you. It is more the attitude and morals that stand out.
They are classics, as far as I am concerned.
> Disney is da' Devil Bobby Boucher !!!
LOL No son of mine is gonna play any foos-ball!
My uncle introduced me to the Chronicles of Narnia when I was young. I have read the series more times than I can count. I still read them. Even as a child, I knew what the symbolism meant and loved it. Every time I read the books, I get something new from them.
My Dear Wormwood,
The most alarming thing in your last account of the patient is that he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, I gather; not even the expectation of an endowment of "grace" for life, but only a hope for the daily and hourly pittance to meet the daily and hourly temptation! This is very bad.
I see only one thing to do at the moment. Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove! I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride- pride at his own humility- will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt- and so on, through as many stages as you please. But don't try this too long, for fear you awake his sense of humour and proportion, in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed.
I love it!
> I LOVED the space trilogy...
I always liked that Ransom was a professor of philology, like Lewis and JRRT were. Tweed in Space!
This is just too, I dunno, something.
"thinly veiled" my Appalachian arse. Did this goof not read to the scene at the stone table? It is blatantly Christian.
Actually, I think the word I am looking for is "delicious." The Christian hating crowd in full song. These days, we are seeing clear lines being drawn between good and evil.
I'm sure that you have "used" boostores up there Sam. You will find a lot of his books there. Here in the Bible Belt, I have a Christian bookstore that has a used section, with a lot of C.S. titles.
Loads on info on the web, as well
Another play from the "Passion of the Christ" playbook. Any mainstream work that deals with Christianity and doesn't treat it with contempt is threatening to these people and must be attacked, usually as intolerant.
Let's see. Pullman vs. C.S. Lewis.
Easy choice from my POV. Bring on the movie.
"C.S. Lewis was a Pagan turned Protestant and made free and unabashed use of allegory"
A Pagan? Where do you get that from? Lewis grew up Christian then became an athiest, then got interested in occult phenomena, then converted to Christianity. Where does Pagan come in? Simply being interested in the paranormal does not make one a Pagan unless you have an extremely loose definition of Paganism.
I am much looking forward to the Narnai movie, provided Disney doesn't PC it to death.
Sam, you've hit the nail on the head. they're STORIES, and darn good ones. And while there may be allegories, etc within a work of fiction, more often than not it is not necessary to acknowledge belief in the second meaning, so to speak. In fact (as you point out), if you aren't concerning yourself with it - for whatever reason - it may not even jump out at you at all. And it sure isn't central to the work's quality.
Same applies to the Potter books, the Da Vinci code, etc.
To be sure, one can walk through life looking to nitpick anything into something blasphemous to them. But what a miserable way to live.
If you are living your life as you should, then reading a simple book isn't going to damn you to an afterlife of fire and brimstone. No matter what the hysterical group of the day would ram down your throat.
>like Lewis and JRRT were. Tweed in Space!<
LOL! That image is GREAT! My favorite is Perelandra BUT the best has to be That Hideous Strength. When I hear about Ward Churchill and these other liberal professors, I think of the scary professors and staff in That Hideous Strength.
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