For those who have not yet been to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe because you feel the expected Christian religious content will be irritating or offensive to you, I offer this very amusing review from the Christian Childcare Action Project, which does NOT recommend that you let your children see the film. (Note
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Offense to God (O)
half man, half goat character
characters of flame dancing in fire
magic to enter another world
magic to make hot drink and cakes
enticement of a child by evil
many characters "frozen" (killed) by witch, repeatedly, then some resurrected
magic potion to heal, repeatedly
half man, half horse and many other mythological creatures such as a man with a goat's head as characters
speaking character of wisdom created from the petals of tree flowers (Gaiaism?), twice
many demon-like characters
demon revelry
It's like... bringing a person from the 1300's to the present, and having them do a movie review.
And to think people probably look to this asshole for "guidance."
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Well, yes. Exactly. That's what fundamentalism does to people. It doesn't matter what religion, actually. The idea of fundamentalism exists in Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and other faiths just as much as in Christianity. Always the follower attempts to "fix" the whole concept of the universe at some point, usually the time at which the sacred scriptures were written (ignoring the fact that those usually take centuries to develop) and nothing that happens after that can be acceptable. God's law is god's law, it is written. If it is not written, then it is against the law. It becomes a mania, a fixation that cannot be overcome, a sort of dementia.
So the turmoil between Shi'ite and Sunni in the Arab world, the war between mainstream and evangelical Christians in America, and the never-ending controversy between science and faith (Galileo and DaVinci, the heretics) are really all the same thing.
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*mutters under his breath* "Offense...To...God...Section. Devon Revelry!" (click click click).
Yep, that would be very annoying :) I'm guessing that he just tries to memorize as much (of the "evil" stuff) as possible, instead.
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XD
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The reviewer in the document is not suggesting a widespread boycott of the movie by any means, only that those with young children approach it with caution- and from a violence standpoint, that's perfectly valid advice in general. But from a Christian perspective, if the biblical references are clear enough for a youth to perceive, the sharp deviations from such (as referenced in the review) are potential cause for confusion. From an ( ... )
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Frankly, I think the reviewer in this instance has built his own personal version of hell and must live a pretty unhappy life. But that's his problem, not mine. ;)
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Familiar pagan gods (Dionysus/Bacchus, Silenus) put in physical appearances and are considered to be on the side of good. The "spirit of the river" speaks and asks Aslan to free it from its chains, which he does by breaking a bridge built over it. Human attempts to deny the pagan elements, the talking animals, the tree spirits, are condemned as wicked and an effort to usurp the rightful place of Aslan's creation, forcing it to conform to a human idea of "order".
I always found it very difficult to paint Prince Caspian as a "Christian" story, unless we take an extremely liberal-minded view of what Christianity is. ;)
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