C.s. Lewis - Blog Posts
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So though it is true that Narnia and Tolkien do have Christianity written into them, the main messages are not inherently religious. The ideas of good and friendship and fighting for what you believe in, whether religious or not, are for everyone, not just christians. I am an atheist and I still relate to the main themes in these works because even if I donāt believe in god I believe in other things such as love and loyalty, which are also themes in these books. So even if the authors were christian, the stories can still be relevant and relatable to all.
So stop gatekeeping. The stories do not belong to a specific religion and can be enjoyed and interpreted by all.
Non-Christians should not be allowed to touch Narnia or Tolkien/LOTR. Those were made for us and belong to us.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badnessāthey have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
āC.S. Lewis
ok, like I get that casting Meryl Streep as Aslan is a weird choice and, perhaps, even a bit troubling, but I truly donāt believe that the most important qualification for an actor voicing Aslan is āhave a penisā. Not overjoyed about it but also I know the movies will not stand or fall based on this one casting decision
tolkien: all the war and death in lotr has nothing to do with the war i was in
tolkien: just like how all the morals/good vs evil/everything my characters believe have nothing to do with my morals/beliefs/religion
tolkien: and that character that comes back from the dead has nothing to do with my religion which is based on someone coming back from the dead and uses coming back from the dead as metaphor literally constantly so donāt get any ideas
tolkien: and none of those giant evil spiders have anything to do with the tarantula that bit me either
clive staples: jirt youre literally so stupid
tolkien:
clive:
tolkien: that really slow grumpy tree who takes forever to get to the point or make up his mind is definitely you though
āAs long as you are proud, you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see anything that is above you.ā
ā C. S. Lewis
You can't go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.
ā C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis once wrote,
"I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief"
And I think we all needed to hear that.
i read CS Lewisā A Grief Observed one time years ago and iām still not recovered from it
Not Sims 4 CC related but something I just saw and it's so true and inspirational. I hope it's also to you all. š
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
well i meant to reblog the voyage of the dawn treader post to my main but this works too lol. god's claws peel me out of myself every week
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." - C. S. Lewis
āEvery one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgiveā
ā C.S. Lewis
Out of the trees wild people stepped forth...