Lucy, Peter, Susan, Edmund: PsyOps for the Right Wing?
My childhood has been wrecked.I must have read The Chronicles of Narnia a dozen times between ages seven and 13. I loved those books. I felt so grown up reading this series - what was it? a good 1200 pages of pretty tiny print? Yeah, I was a precocious little twit.
Not until very recently did I realize the raging debate - is it a debate really? - over the Christian themes running through those books. Was my fundy stepfather trying to brainwash me or was it really just a proto-Harry Potter adventure story? I never thought about anything Jesus-y when I read them. And besides, Aslan was the lion and weren't lions supposed to eat the Christians?
AND I heard on a Beeb newscast that C.S. Lewis has two sons: one's a completely secular "spiritual but not necessarily Christian" dude and the other's an Orthodox Jew. What gives?
I feel so...soiled.
Maybe that's why I went through a brief phase of wanting to be a nun when I was nine. Those brainwashing bastards. Screwing with the mushy moldable minds of younguns.
posted by Oy Vey at 10:42 AM
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