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Narnia and the occult??

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Postby A#minor » May 13th, 2006, 4:11 pm

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Postby Crane07 » May 14th, 2006, 1:18 am

Honestly, I had a hard time not laughing at that website. The Author’s arguments were more than shaky. I would write to the woman and discuss it with her, but this is the sort of idiotic dribble to which one merely shakes one’s head. I have far too many relatives like this woman, so I know that reasoning with this sort of person is useless.

Okay, okay, we get it. C.S. Lewis was not God…we understand that. And yet, the author persists in pointing out all of his bad habits, and alleged bad choices. However, if we researched this woman’s life, I’m sure we would find some unsavory actions. That’s because she is a human being like the rest of us. So was Lewis. We also realize that his works are not imperfect…or we would call them…the Holy Bible.

There is so much to argue on that website. The thing that bothers me the most is that she, like many others, takes Lewis’ fictional novels as strict allegories. If I’m not mistaken, Lewis tells us not to do this repeatedly. But again, this sort of person doesn’t like any Faerie Tales, and looks at them as nonsense.
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Postby Theo » May 14th, 2006, 8:29 am

Ah, the Van Nattans. That's one of the funniest websites I know of - and it's a good reminder of the fact that it's kind of pointless to make fun of the craziest kinds of fundamentalists. You can't possibly top the real thing. :)

I don't see much point in arguing with it, though. Just have a good laugh.
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“First they came for Abdul Rahman and I spoke out because I was a Muslim. Then they came for the Palestinians and I raised hell because I was a Jew. Then they came for the Iraqis and I protested because I was an American. Then they came for the Muslims and I spoke out because I was a Christian, Then they came for the poor and I spoke out because I was rich. By the time they came for me, I had all the support a man could ask for.”
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Postby King Peter » May 14th, 2006, 10:03 pm

"But if the Witch could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who has committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards." - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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Postby Carpe Diem » May 15th, 2006, 2:29 am

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Postby Biff » May 15th, 2006, 11:38 am

"With hindsight perhaps it wasn't a good idea, oh well must be my hind cataracts..." Prof H.J. Farnsworth

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Postby Stanley Anderson » May 15th, 2006, 12:56 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Carpe Diem » May 15th, 2006, 4:32 pm

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Postby Theo » May 15th, 2006, 4:41 pm

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Postby The Pfifltrigg » May 16th, 2006, 4:39 am

False ideas may be refuted indeed by argument, but by true ideas alone are they expelled. — Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Cardinal Newman
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