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

• 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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      • vidarh@lemmy.stad.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m just very tickled at how much it backfired - Lewis turned outright anti-Catholic. If I’d been a religious man I might have tried to read something into that (but I’m not, so).

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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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      • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Okay, that point is clear but, again, to what degree the author of the Harry Potter series being an atheist prevents her from enjoying the Narnia Chronicles as just a fantasy series?

        We’re both atheists and we managed. Although you were able to read more between the lines; for me, the talking lion was just that.

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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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