It's almost that time of year again

[sabotabby]

While good Christian nations slide deeper into barbarism, the self-appointed guardians of everyone else's morality have their priorities straight: Holding back the tide of rampant Jews, Muslims, and atheists who want to herd Christians into camps and feed them to lions and such. In fact, the persecution of innocent Christians is the one thing that both Jews and Muslims agree is a really swell idea.

You might think that there are really deep historical reasons for this, but it's actually quite simple. We hate having to hear bloody Christmas carols everywhere we go.

Anyway, this is worth reading. (Hat tip to rackletang) Because, face it, it's been a depressing morning so far, and we all could use a smile. Fuck Christmas.

Comments

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Discussion about Lewis is almost continually ongoing in some circles. I think many of us were captured by the storytelling, the imagery, and the language when we were too little to notice the ideology, and the sort of person who was captured by storytelling, imagery, and language often grows up to be the sort of person who feels betrayed by Christianity. And we can't forgive Lewis for showing us wonder, but using it to try to make us Christian.

papersky posted on The Last Battle recently. As always, her thoughts are interesting, and the discussion in the comments pretty thought provoking.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Here's the link

[sabotabby]

Wow, thanks for that. I can't really get enough of Narnia analysis, which is yet another reason why I'm so excited about the movie.

I get what papersky is saying, but much of my perception is coloured by what I thought about the books when I was younger versus what I think of them now. I liked TLB, although it wasn't my favourite, probably as an early manifestation of my love for apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic literature. I didn't find Tirian as interesting as Caspian, but the slow decay of Narnia was lovely.

Nor did Susan's fate bother me, initially, because I didn't see her betrayal as stemming from sexuality (I was too young to make that connection), but rather from (as many people in the thread point out) from becoming boring and mainstream. As an outsider-type myself, I'd always identified more with Lucy and been picked on by girls like Susan, so I felt a sense of geek vindication. Anger at Lewis came later.

I'm going to have to do an entire Narnia post -- probably in the context of seeing the movie. I meant to reclaim my collection from my parents' place when I was up there the other day, but it'll have to wait for another visit.