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doverstar · 1 month ago

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can't express accurately how happy it makes me that c.s. lewis did not leave room for many interpretations in narnia. it's christian and you can't get around it. susan chose to care more about worldly things than what matters and he said what he said. the lion is Jesus. evil is evil and good is good and people have to choose. and that makes some readers angry because it's nearly impossible to ignore and they want to ignore it. they want it to be something else and they can't make it something else without making it not narnia. love that. that is doing it right

#that's. how. it. should. be #if there's room for interpretation in your writing as a christian you are doing it wrong #if people read your work and get to pick and choose what it means and you left it OPEN to interpretation-#-and they can divorce your fantasy world from the truth? you are doing it wrong #looking at you john ronald reuel #readers you're upset because susan cares more about “nylons and lipstick” than Aslan? 1. that's not really what lewis said #2. you should be upset because she made the wrong decision #and if you're upset because you can't get around the christianity in narnia let me share something with you - that's the point #it's a christian series #it's telling you christian things. this is not lord of the rings. this is not Cool Fantasy World open to interpretation #you can't worship the fantasy world and ignore the christian truths #you can't separate the two. that's what it should be #that's what all christian writing should be #if you write something amazing and centuries later people host parades for your fictional world and there's no God in it? no truth?#wrong. you did it wrong. they should not be able to separate the two - unless the point of your writing was to write a cool story #congratulations you wrote a cool story. but did it point people to the truth? unavoidably? no? then what a waste of freaking time #what a waste of a beautiful God-given talent #okay I got off on a tangent #my point is: be upset because Narnia is Christian and you can't get around that with ease #I am so. glad. you can't get around that with ease #this is why Lewis is my favorite author in the root of me #he did it right. this is what we as christian authors should aspire to #not LOTR. Narnia. NARNIA.#christianity #narnia #the chronicles of narnia #thoughts in the tags #doverstar's thoughts #writing #authors

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