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tree_and_leafOK, I'm preaching to the choir here, but I really am struggling to believe this article about a depressingly stupid court case.
I really would like to shake this woman. The paragraph which really made my head hit the desk was this one.
Mallory said she has been contacted by other Christian parents who were concerned about the content of the books. On her complaint form, she suggested they be replaced by C.S. Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia” series or Tim LaHaye’s “Left Behind: the Kids” series.
She admitted that she has not read the book series partially because “they’re really very long and I have four kids.”
“I’ve put a lot of work into what I’ve studied and read. I think it would be hypocritical for me to read all the books, honestly. I don’t agree with what’s in them. I don’t have to read an entire pornographic magazine to know it’s obscene,” Mallory said.
OK: now even if I were, say, a really hardline member of the Inquisition and approved of burning books or banning them from schools (which, just to clarify anyone who's in doubt, I'm not ;-) ), I would be far keener on conveying Tim LaHaye to the nearest bonfire than Harry Potter. I would bet my AHRC funding that "Left Behind" contains far more heresy and unchristian sentiment than Harry Potter. In fact, I can't think of any anti-Christian passages in Harry Potter. And if the issue is that there are no school prayers or other overt expressions of Christian religious practice - er, I think I must have missed those bits in the Chronicles...
I haven't got a Lewis icon (remiss of me!) but I'm sure that JRR Tolkien, even though he didn't think all that much of Narnia, would like to express his sympathy at his friend being dragged into such dirty and stupid company.
I really would like to shake this woman. The paragraph which really made my head hit the desk was this one.
Mallory said she has been contacted by other Christian parents who were concerned about the content of the books. On her complaint form, she suggested they be replaced by C.S. Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia” series or Tim LaHaye’s “Left Behind: the Kids” series.
She admitted that she has not read the book series partially because “they’re really very long and I have four kids.”
“I’ve put a lot of work into what I’ve studied and read. I think it would be hypocritical for me to read all the books, honestly. I don’t agree with what’s in them. I don’t have to read an entire pornographic magazine to know it’s obscene,” Mallory said.
OK: now even if I were, say, a really hardline member of the Inquisition and approved of burning books or banning them from schools (which, just to clarify anyone who's in doubt, I'm not ;-) ), I would be far keener on conveying Tim LaHaye to the nearest bonfire than Harry Potter. I would bet my AHRC funding that "Left Behind" contains far more heresy and unchristian sentiment than Harry Potter. In fact, I can't think of any anti-Christian passages in Harry Potter. And if the issue is that there are no school prayers or other overt expressions of Christian religious practice - er, I think I must have missed those bits in the Chronicles...
I haven't got a Lewis icon (remiss of me!) but I'm sure that JRR Tolkien, even though he didn't think all that much of Narnia, would like to express his sympathy at his friend being dragged into such dirty and stupid company.
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Date: 2006-04-21 08:52 pm (UTC)