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[tree_and_leaf]

I thought I wasn't going to manage to read a banned book for (even belatedly) Banned Books week, because all the Oxonmoot stuff has made me crave the "Lord of the Rings" (which I always read in autumn, anyway).

Well - do community church bonfires count?

Sorry I spoke, really. Though I do wonder why they think that LotR is satanic? Do they mean 'pagan,' or is it the crypto-Catholicism they object to?

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[lyorn.livejournal.com]

Though I do wonder why they think that LotR is satanic? Do they mean 'pagan,' or is it the crypto-Catholicism they object to?

I suspect that they are just bad at reading, in this case bad at getting things that are not explictly spelled out. Like someone skimming internet discussion boards before having their morning coffee and accidentally starting a flame war, they only notice some keywords and sort them into their own narrative without considering what those words mean in context, or that they have a context, or that said context might not what they assume it to be. In case of LotR, I bet the keyword is "wizard".

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Well, no-one actually has much by way of religion: so far as Faramir's blessing goes it seems closer to ancestor worship than anything else, and the "Elf-Lords of Old" were people that some of the people appearing in LOTR can actually remember (and be related to) which has an impact on faith, I suppose.

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Place your bets ladies and gentlemen- how much would you put on anyone from that church actually having *read* it?

[scionofgrace.livejournal.com]

::shakes head in disbelief::

Do you know, I went to a conservative Evangelical Christian university where the president was a huge Tolkien fan? And I mean HUGE. I kinda wish I could sic him on people like that.

Ignorance has ever been the bane of Christianity, especially among its own people. We need to put a stop to it.