Have I written this before?
Apr. 1st, 2004 12:22 amEvery once in a while I spend a day or two thinking about the Narnia books and what they mean to me, how my learning during adolescence that these were a Christian work made me supremely uncomfortable for a while but how I ultimately decided that it didn't matter. I'll probably eventually get around to writing a little essay about it, but for now, just this:
Many of the descriptions, the settings and scenery, evoked images in my mind that are still almost as clear as they were when my father read those words to me, nearly twenty years ago. But the bit of dialogue that I recall above all others, save perhaps "The Tisroc, may he live forever!", is what I believe Aslan said to a young soldier in the seventh book, a soldier who had worshiped Tash, a blood-thirsty, bird-headed creature with several arms, all his life. It was something along the lines of "The good you do, no matter in whose name you do it, is good done in my name." That perhaps makes more sense to me, and did even back then, than most other things I've heard about religion.
Many of the descriptions, the settings and scenery, evoked images in my mind that are still almost as clear as they were when my father read those words to me, nearly twenty years ago. But the bit of dialogue that I recall above all others, save perhaps "The Tisroc, may he live forever!", is what I believe Aslan said to a young soldier in the seventh book, a soldier who had worshiped Tash, a blood-thirsty, bird-headed creature with several arms, all his life. It was something along the lines of "The good you do, no matter in whose name you do it, is good done in my name." That perhaps makes more sense to me, and did even back then, than most other things I've heard about religion.