Lmao at C.S Lewis "promoting mysticism" he was so fucking Christian literally every book he ever wrote is about being Christian and shit
Idk how A Wrinkle in Time is "occult" or whatever I seem to remember it being kind of Christian actually 🤔
And Where the Sidewalk Ends has got to be one of the most charming and harmless books there is
Literally Jesus. Many people think Aslan the lion was intended to be an allegory for Jesus but Lewis from what I understand did not intend for The Chronicles of Narnia to be an allegory for Christianity but rather a supposition of sorts. Aslan is literally Jesus, in the Narnian universe. Like in our universe we call him Jesus and he died on the cross and in the Narnian universe his name is Aslan and he dies on a stone table. It's more like a Jesus fan fiction than a Jesus allegory. That's how Christian it is. Lewis answers the question "What would Jesus look like if he existed in a fantasy universe"
Accidental Jesus fanfiction is another level of religion tbh
I now need a Passion of the Aslan where all the Narnia characters reenact the actual crucifixion of Jesus. Overly melodramatic portrayal of Jesus by a man in a lion suit.
Yes. As sammer510 said it may not technically be allegory but "Aslan is Jesus" hits you with all the subtlety of a Ayn Rand character.
Maybe I just didn't catch it at the time because I was like 10 years old when I read them, but it seemed like he toned it down a lot in the later books in the series. I started with like the fourth or fifth one because that was what my elementary school library had, and it was pretty much just that or Lloyd Alexander for fantasy genre stuff. When I got to middle school and they had the whole series, though, holy fucking shitballs. All the subtlety of a nut shot with a sledgehammer.
I mean the Last Battle is pretty Revelations-y, but yeah Dawn Treader and some of the other middle ones are more chill.
What's funny is that his buddy Tolkien hated allegory with burning hatred of a thousand suns. I can't imagine what he thought about it, probably a reason AFAIK we don't have any notes or letters from Tolkien that express his feelings about it.
We have plenty of evidence that Tolkien despised the books, they almost stopped being friends he was so pissed about father Christmas in Narnia.
Tough luck, Tolkien. You exist in a cultural context and your artistic sensibilities are shaped by your life experiences just like everyone else, bucko
I mean in the first one he creates the world and the the last one he destroys it to create heaven, that combined with the ressurction in book 2 are all the direct god bits. I font think he was a character in any of the rest of them
He shows up usually at the beginning and end, sometimes in dreams or visions in the middle.
If we wanna talk about a lack of subtly in a christ allegory, I am compelled to bring up The Matrix and how I didn’t recognize it the first time
Madeline lengle (wrinkle author) was literally the poet in residence at a fucking church
Mrs. Which just hits different during Satanic Panic, I guess
being disrespectful to god by having talking animals
:floppy-parrot:
The Bible is full of weird shit that talks. Lest they forget the talking snake that kickstarts the whole shebang, regardless of it being Satan's vent doll.
:chomsky-yes-honey: i remember arguing over whether vent was better than teamspeak
That Hop on Pop shit is much more reasonable than the rest. I love my son and all, but that shit hurts.
“Encouraging children to use violence against their fathers” okay that’s fucking hilarious
Depicting women in strong leadership positions
Quite on the nose with their misogyny there
It's one of those liberal cities where they defunded the police so now there's nobody to call to stop dangerous filth like Hop On Pop.
Damn Where the Sidewalk Ends is a lot more hardcore than I remember
banning the lion the witch and the wardrobe is literally like banning the bible
fuckin hilarious
This Christian book contains mysticism!
Early Christians: :side-eye-1: :side-eye-2:
"Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
:-p
I will unironically see media put out by the Second Baptist Church of Houston throwing shade at the First Baptist Church. You could straight up ban the Bible and some number of Christians would applaud while shouting "About time!"
Where the Sidewalk Ends? Really?
I might have to sate some boredom at some point and go down the rabbit hole of "banned books and why they were banned".
