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For real? What was the theme, a movie or whatever it was tied into.

I just saw this was an old post. Was it the WITCH dolls? I'm not christian but I dont like them either, mostly for the way they are dressed and the dumbing down of the tv show...even my cartoon freak kids wont watch it.

I admit it, we hit fast food like twice a month, balanced at home with real food, of course.

meg

I don't belive a psychic telephone is "witchcraft", nor that wiccan as it truly is intended is bad. It's just pagan mythology, which predates Christian mythology. There is nothing sinister about it, and many of its holidays are now Christian holidays. Neither viewpoint is better or worse than the other, and this country was founded on religious freedom, not any one religion.

That said, yes, McDonald's is not nutrition, and their toys come from many mass-produced tv show or movie tie-ins. Parents should watch what their kids watch on tv and what they are being "sold." To every big business in the world (and that includes politics), we are merely consumers and they like to sell us on anything and everything. McDonald's now has pirate-themed stuff from the new POTC movie. Pirates were lawbreakers and murderers, so surely that is equally bad?

Nevertheless, I believe Lewis did intend the Chronicles to be an allegory to Christian beliefs. He often met with his group of writer friends, the Inklings, and bounced ideas off them. Friend and Inkling member, Tolkien, felt that you could not teach religion by allegory. Lewis did not agree, and he went forward with his allegorical children's book. While he is a favorite literary character of mine (the lion), you also have to be blind not to see Aslan as an allegory to Christ, and the final book as the end of the world. Further up and further in! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Nearly everything written by Lewis has some aspect of a former atheist turned Christian in it, which he was. The Screwtape Letters are a conversation between two demons. Under the original poster's flawed analogy, you should boycott one of the greatest and most eloquent literary minds of the 20th century because there are demons in one of his writings.

He would be the first to turn down the idea that any toy or book or tv show should not be enjoyed because of its purported evil content. He was against scholastic snobbery or Christian censorship. He felt all books and all things should be read and that the human mind contained everything in it capable of deriving its own understanding.

Free thought and even books about magic (for there is magic in Chronicles) do not drive a person down toward Satan; they, in fact, lift him up to God.

Sorry for the spelling issues -- way too early in the morning... I was absolutely exhausted when I posted and too lazy to go into detail.

My dad use to tell stories of he aunt that could use dowsing to find water or a ring on a string. She read tarot cards to get a different veiw of a problem but she didnot believe they told her the furture just posable outcomes. she picked out my dads first wifes son from a crowed playground and she had never seen a picture of him!!! she would look into a mirror and see thing that nobody else could!!! She was a DEVOTE CHIRSTIAN and faithfully read the Bible and prayed and God heard her too!!! when she prayed, you knew without a doubt that God was lissoning weither you believed or not!!! I only met her one time when i was 4 and she told me things that have happen in my life that at the time made no sence and i remember it clearly!!! She died a week later and the only reason she had to come see my dad was to tell me what she did because God told her. So would she be a prophet or a Witch? she used tarot and other "witchcraft" so...

Aslan was a hybrid of metaphors based on Lewis's fascination with the similarities and differences between various religions. The leonine aspects of Aslan represent Vishnu as Narasimha, as does the plot strand where Aslan (solely) defeats and kills the White Witch.

Can you elaborate how Aslans is like Vishnu?

I'm a bit rusty on my Hindu reading, but does Vishnu sacrifice himself to evil forces, is killed after being humiliated, then rises again?

Am curious to know. It has been a long time since I browsed either the Upanishads or Mahabarata.

Also, with the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve having to set Narnia right again....isn't it Vishnu who comes to set things right, not men?

Anyway, very interesting.

ellecreated

C.S. Lewis was a scholar so he may of studied other religions but he was a self proclaimed Christian and a strong one at that.

He wrote many books on Christian Theology, I don't know of any Hindu Theology books he wrote.

The Narnia Chronicles submit that it is the son of Adam and the Daughter of Eve (Judiac Christian theology) who brought evil into the world and it is the son of adam and the daughter of eve who can defeat it with Aslan.

Adam and Eve according to Judaic Christian Theology (the Bible & Torah) are the first man and woman created by God.

Did C.S. Lewis die?

Yes, in 1963

http://www.cslewis.org/resources/chronocsl.html

Here's a couple of websites on CS Lewis

Into the Wardrobe
CS Lewis Foundation

All of the "Chronicles of Narnia" books were written after lewis became a Christian. The Magician's Nephew was actually the 5th (or maybe 6th) book in the series, kind of a "look back" into the beginning.

Aslan is referred to as "The Son of the Emperor beyond the sea." He also dies for the sins committed by Edmund, then rises again. The stories are written on two levels - great stories for kids, and deeper meanings for for Christians. And then for those of us that are Christian parents we can use the books as allegories to explain things in the Bible to our children.

Also, Tolkien was a Christian as well; and he meant for his Trilogy to have some symbolic meaning to it, too.

As a matter of fact, Lewis came to become a Christian shortly after a discussion with Tolkien and another author. (See the 1st website I listed above)

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