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

• 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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      • Jilanico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Recently read the last book in the Narnia series (The Last Battle). There is racism hinted throughout the series, but wow that book is overtly racist. Can’t believe kids are being encouraged to read that stuff in this day and age. And it won the Carnegie Medal smh

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