[ SECRET POST #3584 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3584 ⌋

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[kallanda_lee]

I was never quite religious, but I went to Catholic school, and I still enjoy some religious element in fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

As a committed pagan, I maintain that if Narnia was meant to encourage Christianity then C.S. Lewis did it wrong. I mean, maybe leaving out the dryads, Naiads, and Bacchus is something he could have considered?

[(Anonymous)]

Idk that Narnia was meant to encourage Christianity so much as reflect the values and mythologies of Christianity and provide an interesting/potentially inspirational fictional perspective on the faith.

[alexi_lupin]

I think parts of it straight up encourage Christianity like when Aslan tells Lucy (I think) that in her world he has another name and she must learn to know him there. That's fairly strongly saying "Come to Jesus."

[(Anonymous)]

I always wondered what the Nine Names of Aslan must have been.

[(Anonymous)]

C.S. Lewis was very much a "All Gods are faces of One God, as long as they're Good" type of Christian, and rather more of a hippie than converts usually are these days. He's on record as saying, basically, that the Narnia books were partly his way of exploring what Christianity would be like if there was a world with dryads, naiads, talking animals, etc. and Christ decided to become incarnate on it.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. Religious stories can be very interesting. I really enjoyed the Left Behind series as an apocalyptic action-adventure... at least until they started chilling with Jesus irl, that was too goofy.

[(Anonymous)]

Was there ever a point where they were in a plane and Jesus had to be the co-pilot?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, one of the heroes was an actual airline pilot, so I wouldn't be surprised.

[(Anonymous)]

I really liked the first 3 or 4 books as OTT adventures, but then I sorta lost interest.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my goodness, I love The Book of the Dun Cow. And the sequel. I should re-read them both.

[(Anonymous)]

I have literally never met anyone before who read TBotDC... and I did not know there was a sequel! How does it rank against the first book?

[(Anonymous)]

The sequel, The Book of Sorrows, is also a very good read, although it's even darker than the first book (which, to be fair, was already pretty dark).

[(Anonymous)]

I read it too--back when it was first published! (I'm old.) Still remember John Wesley Weasel and Thuringer the pouting turkey.

[(Anonymous)]

I read it when I was a kid, you aren't alone

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an atheist and I will always have a soft sport for Narnia. I think when I was a kid I didn't really catch on to the themes, and now I just enjoy the story. It has so many fantasy elements to it that are fun.

And like honestly, sometimes even very non religious stories have religious undertones. As long as things don't get too preachy/or I can ignore the preaching then I can deal.

[(Anonymous)]

I love the Narnia books, and actually, now that I can spot the Christian motifs CS Lewis used it has rather deepened my appreciation of his writing.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

My problems with Narnia is not the religious aspect of it, in fact the first time I ever encountered any of the Narnia books was in primary school - a church school BTW - when my teacher read LWW, MN and LB as the regular story session, and she pointed out the Christ allegory in Aslan.

You know, one big reason why I love LotR so much is the religious undertone. It is not nearly as obvious as Narnia (and I cannot judge "The Dun Cow" because I haven't read it), but the Silmarillion does have a Creation story, and there is a kind of moral background to LotR that feels very Christian. And I like that.