I read them when I was in 5th grade probably. Never really thought about the Christian allegory until I was an adult. Not that it would have mattered either way.
1) Personally I found Narnia books boring, even as a child.
2) Cut your bullshit at least for a second, because you are not helping the reddit atheist community, stereotypes.....too much stereotypes.
The Narnia books pissed me off as a small child because it felt like I was being preached to, which I learned I hated from hanging out with my grandmother.
I had the same feeling while I was reading The amber spyglass ( the first two were ok). Bassically , I think that His Dark Materials trilogy is really the perfect mirror image of Narnia book. The pretencious bitching of the author ( only this time from the atheist side of things) in the end takes the center stage over the plot and character development. So I can't say that I hate both series, it's just that I have never finished them and I'm not planning to do that.
All of them? Or just "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe"? Cause they got better. I remember liking "The Horse and his Boy" and "Voyage of the Dawntreader"
I liked "The Magician's nephew" and "The horse and his boy". But " The silver chair" and "Last battle" ( which I never ended) were too preachy for me. Same with the last book of "His dark materials" trilogy ( I think some scenes in those books, even not the preachy ones are disturbing).
I can see that. I thought it was a bit much and I'm a Christian. Though looking back the silver chair is more a defence of platonic ideals than Christian thought.
I am a catholic ( a very very bad one, if we go with 19 th century logic), and yes, some youth literature was/is heavily influenced by very religious or borderline militant atheist authors, those are the books I disliked at the time. Same thing with all forms of entertainment ( for example biodhock infinite). I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is one small step between a religious person and a televangelist zealot, but also there is a thin line between agnostic or atheist and a idiotic, simple minded edgelords and when those this takes away the fun, I'm out.
We don't need to get upset about the christian themes in Narnia now that we have His Dark Materials, which I don't want to spoil, but let's just say its very much not safe for church.
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n/a serialflamingo 2017-05-13
How young could they have been when they read them? You'd have to be a complete retard to miss the Christian allegory.
n/a botchlings 2017-05-13
I read them when I was in 5th grade probably. Never really thought about the Christian allegory until I was an adult. Not that it would have mattered either way.
n/a mehforeverybody 2017-05-13
1) Personally I found Narnia books boring, even as a child. 2) Cut your bullshit at least for a second, because you are not helping the reddit atheist community, stereotypes.....too much stereotypes.
n/a ashent2 2017-05-13
The Narnia books pissed me off as a small child because it felt like I was being preached to, which I learned I hated from hanging out with my grandmother.
n/a mehforeverybody 2017-05-13
I had the same feeling while I was reading The amber spyglass ( the first two were ok). Bassically , I think that His Dark Materials trilogy is really the perfect mirror image of Narnia book. The pretencious bitching of the author ( only this time from the atheist side of things) in the end takes the center stage over the plot and character development. So I can't say that I hate both series, it's just that I have never finished them and I'm not planning to do that.
n/a cleverseneca 2017-05-13
All of them? Or just "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe"? Cause they got better. I remember liking "The Horse and his Boy" and "Voyage of the Dawntreader"
n/a mehforeverybody 2017-05-13
I liked "The Magician's nephew" and "The horse and his boy". But " The silver chair" and "Last battle" ( which I never ended) were too preachy for me. Same with the last book of "His dark materials" trilogy ( I think some scenes in those books, even not the preachy ones are disturbing).
n/a cleverseneca 2017-05-13
I can see that. I thought it was a bit much and I'm a Christian. Though looking back the silver chair is more a defence of platonic ideals than Christian thought.
n/a mehforeverybody 2017-05-13
I am a catholic ( a very very bad one, if we go with 19 th century logic), and yes, some youth literature was/is heavily influenced by very religious or borderline militant atheist authors, those are the books I disliked at the time. Same thing with all forms of entertainment ( for example biodhock infinite). I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is one small step between a religious person and a televangelist zealot, but also there is a thin line between agnostic or atheist and a idiotic, simple minded edgelords and when those this takes away the fun, I'm out.
n/a niexx 2017-05-13
We don't need to get upset about the christian themes in Narnia now that we have His Dark Materials, which I don't want to spoil, but let's just say its very much not safe for church.