In Reply to: Re: "Chronicles of Narnia" posted by quotes for you on December 11, 2005 at 16:40:29:
that's the title of an article I was just reading - here:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110007655
As predicted in my Dec. 5 copy of National Review "The Narnia movie may not deserve to generate controversy, but there can be no doubt that it will...Watch for....the NYTimes to print hand-wringing articles azbout Narnian theocracy, and the ACLU to threten litigation against public-school teachers who read the book to their students or encourage them to see the movie."
And so, the controversy begins. I have been listening to and reading all these outrages and all it does is make me laugh. C.S. Lewis was first and foremost a professor of literature and then he became a Christian. From what I understand, Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia (a staple in my family for 30 years!) as something he would have liked to have read as a child with basic Christian principles as he understood them interwoven in it. I think people are making much ado about nothing. But that's not surprising.
And of course, my lame brain AOL news feature lists Narnia as "luring in the Sunday school crowd" as if to say, don't go if you don't want to hear about God. Geeze. It's a story, it's a tale, take out of it what you will like the rest of the entertainment we all watch 24/7.