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.
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.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, pobody’s nerfect 🤷
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).