Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is stopping an atheist of enjoying the Narnia Chronicles?

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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    • vidarh@lemmy.stad.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, pobody’s nerfect 🤷

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    • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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 🤷

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      • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It helps that The Chronicles of Narnia are fantasy books.

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    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hot take here, but you can be atheist and enjoy religious stories all the while knowing they’re fake.

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    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨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?”.

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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 🤷

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did she get bored of it? Or were you so disinterested in the book you read it like an asshole to her and that’s why she lost interest?

  A good public speaker can make a math textbook seem like Dickens.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    She was bored of it. I used to do VO for a living. I know how to read a book to a child.

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• IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m atheist and liked the Narnia books

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  • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why is it weird to be atheist and love the Narnia books?

    Is there a lot of religious stuff in them? I’ve never read them, I just thought it was alternate fantasy world stories.

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    • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Aslan is Jesus. It’s a club-you-over-the-head allegory for Christian ideology

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      • jasory@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Everyone seems to pick up on Aslan = Jesus but if you are vaguely familiar with turn of the century Christianity debates it’s much more specific than that.

        Muslims are Satan-worshippers (Tash) and so are Christians who argue that Allah and God are the same. (In the form of Tash-lan in the novels)

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• vidarh@lemmy.stad.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve never read the books, but I did enjoy the movies, and it’s really disappointing. I have the DVDs, so I guess I could still watch those knowing it won’t signal any continued demand the way streaming them would, but still.

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