Viloence: visual vs literary

[selah_1977]

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From: selah_1977
Subject: Re: Viloence: visual vs literary
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Date: 8/9/00 8:40 pm  (ET)

Trina wrote:

"Yet never have I heard anything denouncing the violence in Lewis's
works! Is it simply because his 7 book series is considered a Christian
allegory that children brandishing broadswords and decapitating foreign
invaders is *not* considered violent? Only in this last HP book does
someone actually die, whilst in Narnia the dead fairly litter the
pages. *Sigh...*"

Double sigh.

As a conservative Christian, I *hate* our tendency to jump on the Judgment
Bandwagon. I'd go over my dissertation on enjoying HP and not going to
Hell because of it, but I'm too weary of that particular debate to even
bother. Besides, it would be like preaching to the choir here on an HP
list. And thanks to that debate on another list, I arrived here...

Still, it irks me that many of my best friends AND my favorite aunt
will never experience the joy of a series that I know they'd love b/c
of their unfair prejudices.

To Harry Potter--the Boy Who Lived!

Ebony AKA AngieJ