-Caveat Lector-
Well, actually, Tito, if you take a close look at the
overall body of work from Lewis you will find that
much of it more closely resembles Harry Potter than
scripture...and if you follow his personal life, you
will find that he had a great love for and was moving
closer towards the formalized, ritualized, works based
"religion" offered by the Roman church and other
denominations...a christian (saved, born again
believer in Jesus Christ) he actually wasn't and
bible-based he wasn't either...All things worldly
(including false churches) will be brought more and
more in line with the party line of the one world
order, one world ecumenical religion that must be
primed and ready for AC to come on the scene to
worldwide acceptance.
(oooooohhhh....this ought to start something
intense...!! ;o})
provocateur
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--- Tito Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Bowdlerizing C.S. Lewis
> by Joseph Sobran
> During the Victorian era, the prevailing delicacy of
> the age inspired Dr.
> Thomas Bowdler and his sister to edit
> Shakespeare’s plays to make them
> suitable for "family reading." All off-color jokes
> and sexual matter were
> removed. The word "bowdlerize" entered the language
> as a synonym for militant
> prudery.
>
> Today it appears that a new species of
> bowdlerization is afoot. It seems that
> HarperCollins has acquired the right to republish
> C.S. Lewis’s seven classic
> children’s books about the land of Narnia – and
> to edit out their Christian
> content. Apparently the idea is to reshape the
> stories on the model of the
> hugely successful (non-Christian) Harry Potter
> stories, and to market toys
> based on the Narnia characters, also on the Potter
> model.
>
> In a leaked HarperCollins memo, a corporation
> executive offers "emphatic
> assurances that no attempt will be made to correlate
> the stories to Christian
> imagery/theology."
>
> It’s almost unbelievable. De-Christianizing the
> works of one of the greatest
> Christian authors of the twentieth century? The
> Narnia stories owe their
> artistry and power to Lewis’s way of infusing the
> Christian message into
> simple tales about children and a lion named Aslan.
> The lion, an awesome and
> thrilling character, represents Christ.
>
> How Aslan can be suitably watered down for
> secularized "family reading"
> remains to be seen. Any such attempt is bound to
> destroy the point and energy
> of the Narnia books. You might as well try to edit
> God and Satan out of
> Paradise Lost.
>
> Usually we revere a great author’s intentions and
> artistic integrity; but
> when it comes to Christianity, such considerations
> may be sacrificed to
> higher values, such as "multiculturalism" and – oh
> yes – money.
>
> Lewis would be outraged and sickened by this
> compromise of his work. Are the
> keepers of his estate willing to sell him out to the
> very secularist forces
> he fought with all his genius? Can they betray his
> trust so shamelessly?
>
> Maybe editing Aslan down to modern scale is a job
> for the Jesus Seminar,
> which is devoted to editing the Gospels by deleting
> any sayings that sound
> too Christian. One excellent reason for believing in
> Christ is that after
> 2,000 years he is still as troubling to the
> conscience as he was in his own
> time. If he can be reduced to a bland moral teacher,
> whose doctrine is
> indistinguishable from modern political platforms,
> he becomes much safer and
> easier to sell. Whole denominations are based on
> adapting Jesus to the Latest
> Thinking.
>
> Lewis’s fictional adaptation of Christ is another
> matter. Aslan is not a
> watered-down substitute for Christ, but a
> spiritually challenging figure who
> conveys, even to adult readers, some of the wonder
> of the Original. He seems
> to be more than the flesh of HarperCollins can bear.
>
> Lewis always insisted that a good children’s story
> can’t be just a
> dumbed-down version of a story for adults. It has to
> be a good read for
> adults too. He liked the analogy of a string
> quartet, which uses fewer of the
> orchestra’s resources than the symphony, but is
> just as demanding in its own
> way. Children, in fact, are more apt than adults to
> stop reading a story when
> they find it dull.
>
> This respect for children made Lewis a great
> children’s author, as well as a
> great author for adults. I never read the Narnia
> stories until I was in my
> 20s, and I was overwhelmed by their inherent power.
> I still reread them, as I
> reread Lewis’s other works. They are all of a
> piece.
>
> The notion that any editor can "improve" Lewis’s
> works is a presumption
> worthy of the Bowdlers. But in an age that regards
> nothing as obscene, the
> energies of censorship are turned against unseemly
> expressions of
> Christianity. One wonders whether the unexpurgated
> Narnia stories will remain
> available. Perhaps there will be an adults-only
> edition?
>
> Aslan’s message to children (and adults) is a
> stern but loving one: You must
> change. This sets the Narnia stories apart from all
> the children’s books that
> are merely adventures, with merely external foes and
> monsters, however
> dangerous or malevolent or spooky. In Narnia, no
> enemy can truly threaten a
> child without the child’s spiritual cooperation.
>
> Has this profoundly Christian message been lost on
> the Lewis estate?
>
> July 4, 2001
>
> Joe Sobran is a nationally syndicated columnist. He
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