On 25 Nov 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: #Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> writes: #> As for Narnia, no denying the allegory, but it's a good story #> nonetheless. It's not a book that tries to convert you, it's #> just told from an explicitly Christian viewpoint. # #That's what bugged me, it's *not* explicitly christian. It's a #fantasy world, with non-christian fantasy religious elements, which he #whips the covers off at the end and blatantly associates with #christianity. That's what pissed me off about it. Well, yeah. Except that for Lewis, the Christian mythos is absolutely true about the universe. The fair question, as I see it, is: Did Lewis expect the series to hit people this way, or could he reasonably have expected it to? And if so, how did he feel about it? -- Not necessarily questions we can answer. -- Mark A. Mandel