• qyron
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    91 year ago

    What is stopping an atheist of enjoying the Narnia Chronicles?

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      91 year ago

      They’re basically one big Christian analogy. They’re infinitely better written and more appropriate for children to have anything to do with than the bible, though.

      • qyron
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        71 year ago

        I never read the bible and the little I retained from the Narnia Chronicles resumes to talking creatures battling over the common trope of good vs evil.

        I’m an atheist and I was able to take some entertainment from those works without feeling dragged into a christian analogy.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          21 year ago

          Hence why I made sure to point out that it’s much better written than the source material it’s based on.

          Just because Aslan is basically Jesus as a lion doesn’t mean that atheists like you and myself can’t enjoy it 🤷

          • qyron
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            11 year ago

            Okay, that point is clear but, again, to what degree the author of the Harry Potter series being an atheist prevents her from enjoying the Narnia Chronicles as just a fantasy series?

            We’re both atheists and we managed. Although you were able to read more between the lines; for me, the talking lion was just that.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              21 year ago

              Unless FlyingSquid is married to JK Rowling, nobody said whether or not the author of HP is an atheist 🤷

              In fact, a quick search reveals that the transphobic ass is a Christian herself.

              • qyron
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                21 year ago

                Squids. Too close to Chthulu to be trusted.

                  • qyron
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                    11 year ago

                    Being calles untrustworthy or being related to Chthulu?

      • V H
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        71 year ago

        The funny thing is we can blame Tolkien for that. It was Tolkien who got Lewis to convert, though he became a protestant while Tolkien was a Catholic, and hilariously Tolkien found Lewis’ use of Christian symbolism too overdone and lacking in subtlety.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          it was Tolkien who got Lewis to convert

          Well, pobody’s nerfect 🤷

          • V H
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            51 year ago

            I’m just very tickled at how much it backfired - Lewis turned outright anti-Catholic. If I’d been a religious man I might have tried to read something into that (but I’m not, so).

      • GreatAlbatrossM
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        41 year ago

        I have to be honest, I read the Narnia Chronicles as a child, and never once made the leap of “wait, is this allegory for that stuff they make us sing about at school?”.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          31 year ago

          Because allegories aren’t always super obvious. If it had been, the series wouldn’t have been anywhere near as successful or indeed worth reading at all 🤷