Fiction and Religion

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The plot is fascinating.

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Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking

trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
Creatures, I give you yourselves, said the strong, happy voice of
Aslan. I give to you for ever this land of Narnia. I give you the
woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you
myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also.
Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their
ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you
were taken and into them you can return. Do not do so.

Genesis

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[] She would have known that when a willing victim who had
committed no treachery was killed in a traitors stead, the Table
would crack and Death itself would start working backward. []

The Sacrifice

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Here is your brother, he (Aslan)
said, and there is no need to talk
to him about what is past.

Edmund Pevensie

Learning from mistakes

Eustace Scrubb

It was, however, clear to everyone

that Eustaces character had been
rather improved by becoming a
dragon.
Youd never know him for the
same boy.

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Are you not thirsty ? said the lion.

Im dying of thirst, said Jill.
Then drink, said the lion.
[]
Do you eat girls ?
I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and
emperors, cities and realms, said the Lion. It didnt say this as if it
were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just
said it.
[]
But your task will be the harder because of what you have done.

Come closer to see the right path.

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Rabadash, said Aslan. Take heed. Your doom is very near, but
you may still avoid it. Forget your pride (what have you to be proud
of ?) and your anger (who has done you wrong ?) and accept the
mercy of these good kings.

The ones that dont give up

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Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I

could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on
the fairy tale as an instrument, then collected information about
child psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then
drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out
'allegories' to embody them. This is all pure moonshine. I couldn't
write in that way. It all began with images; a faun carrying an
umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. At first there
anything
Christian
about
them; that element pushed itself
Clive wasn't
Staples
Lewis
a.k.a.
Jack

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