The Other Side of Narnia: Why Many Fundamentalists Hate C.S. Lewis

Interesting:

http://www.realityspoken.com/cslewis.htm

 

Hmm that is very interesting.

Never knew that much about him.

 

what a dude...

 

I think someone needs to read the screwtape letters and a book about a bus tour....

 

hahah, clive staples


that was too long... why was there no abstract or summary for that article? I blame the devil

 

people keep telling me the Narnia story is Christian based ... i dont see that...in my view it is very pagan.
there is so much more to the story then people seem to think. It is very deep and in my view, it is not made for young children.

 

lewis came up with aslan 2 minutes after finding god on a double decker bus, his own words, it has the crucifixcion, it has the ressurection, aslan is jesus\god\holy spirit, narnia is christendom


it's not a hard metaphor to see

 

it could easily go any direction man. just because aslan had somethings in common with jesus does not make it christian. I mean there are stories of that sort all over

 

ya, know, just because lewis SAID it was jesus, that counts for absolutly nothing

 

did he ever say that, no one ever seemed to answer me when i asked if he had based him on jesus. if he did i didnt know

 

i liked that last paragraph, the part where that even though he loved a god he still more-so respected truth.

 

read "the screwtape letters" it'll say a lot.....

 

yeah, Aslan is a suppositional Christ as Lewis says. He said many times that they aren't allegories [and that you won't find a one to one connection between them and the Bible] but that it goes like this "Supose there was a land of Narnia. What would Christ be like in Narnia? etc" ...wikipedia is a great friend the stores are more-so just basic themes..Redemption, selvelessness, forgiveness etc.

Lord of the Rings also contained some Catholic elements from Tolkein

 

whats really cool about Lord of the Rings is that i heard he kinda based the elves on the people of Finland. Or at least thats what i heard. I am mostly Finnish so it was kind of cool to hear

 

Lord of the Rings is a christian analogy...which makes it even more badass

 

i think that if people who called themselves christians would read both the OT and the NT, only the insane ones would dare to call themselves christians/love "god" afterwards...

 

am I the only person this confused?

 

i never read narnia books i was more lotr

 

it was tolkien that turned lewis onto christianity (although they fell out after Lewis refused to become a total catholic)

 

how confused?