I may not have needed a sick bag while I watch The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe, but the not-so-subtle religious overtones leave me feeling queasy. While I haven’t read the book in years, I recall being distinctly uncomfortable when I read phrases like “Daughter of Eve” and “Son of Adam” thrown about. In some ways the religious usage was almost too casual, and certainly entirely intentional.
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I may not have needed a sick bag while I watch The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe, but the not-so-subtle religious overtones leave me feeling queasy. While I haven’t read the book in years, I recall being distinctly uncomfortable when I read phrases like “Daughter of Eve” and “Son of Adam” thrown about. In […]
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Forget little things like those – how about the entire final book, which might as well just have had a big, bold clarifying statement at the start, “Aslan = Jesus.”
That’s the one with the whole apocalypse event, right? Yeah, that might have been a little over the top.