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2026-07-23 05:58 UTC

Oh yes I know I know, "he's not a tame lion," you keep asserting. And that's the problem! Jack Lewis shouldn't need to keep saying it. It should echo through the writing, it should have gravitas. To put it another way, one shouldn't take the Lord's name in vain—Christian iconography needs to feel earned and not many artists can actually pull that off. That's why one of da Vinci-chan's angels seems real and why Neon Genesis Evangelion feels real while most Christian iconography is flimsy and tawdry. That's how Aslan feels in #Narnia. I've seen picture-books with more gravitas than anything in The Chronicles of Narnia. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 06:03

So what's up with Clive Staples Lewis? I would like to know. I think the world wants to know. Surely this good Earth and her peoples must have their bellyful of #CSLewis by now—at least, with C. S. Lewis the tinpot saint of a zillion right-wing Christians, who clearly think that Jack Lewis's apologetics prove that Christianity is real, or something. I am curious to see that new film of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. I am hopeful of a bit of sly subversion that will feel like a gut-punch to the solar plexus of Christians already peeved that so many of their other heroes have been lost to them, tainted by "cultural Marxism". Peter Wigand reports that the loudest chatter out of the Twitter Christians is howling about that Chris Nolan Odyssey film and...jeez, doesn't that just say something about the true nature of the right-wing Christian faith. ~Chara of Pnictogen

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