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JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns
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What a shitbrick. I am glad I never got into her books in the first place. I saw the first movie and had no interest in seeing the others. I read half the first book to my daughter and she got bored with it, so we stopped. My wife got really into her and is disappointed neither of us are, but fuck her. I don't want to spend a dime on her.
Edit: Weird part- she's always been an atheist and she loved the Narnia books.
What is stopping an atheist of enjoying the Narnia Chronicles?
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.
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.
Well, pobody's nerfect 🤷
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).
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.
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 🤷
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.
Unless FlyingSquid is married to JK Rowling, nobody said whether or not the author of HP is an atheist 🤷
In fact, a quick search reveals that the transphobic ass is a Christian herself.
Squids. Too close to Chthulu to be trusted.
I resent that.
Being calles untrustworthy or being related to Chthulu?
I may be untrustworthy but that dude is an ASSHOLE.
Agreed. After all, Chthulu wants to destroy the universe and plunge everything into the infinite chaos.
It helps that The Chronicles of Narnia are fantasy books.
Hot take here, but you can be atheist and enjoy religious stories all the while knowing they're fake.
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?".
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 🤷
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.
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)
The Chronicles of Narnia was basically C.S. Lewis' opinion on theology at the time.
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
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? Generally speaking, the HP books were like crack to children.
A good public speaker can make a math textbook seem like Dickens.
She was bored of it. I used to do VO for a living. I know how to read a book to a child.
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.