Off-Topic: Narnia

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 7500

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Susan McGee wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean, it's not my thing? I'm quite aware of the heavy
> > duty Christian allegory that is the Narnia chronicles -- it's not
> > exactly subtle....and you're right, in the Christian world, he was
> > redeemed, he didn't have to do anything much himself expect 
express
> > true penitence and sin no more...
> 
> Hmmm. I'm trying to figure out what I'm saying here. First, that 
last isn't
> necessarily true. According to lots of protestant creeds, yes (that 
whole
> "saved" thing). But Roman Catholicism holds that there is an 
accounting for
> sin, even after forgiveness has been obtained. Sin causes damage, 
and the
> damage is still there to be fixed even after you're sorry. So there 
is
> accountability; remorse isn't a free pass, as it were. Answered a 
bit by
> Edmund's taking on the Witch and being mortally wounded, I thought.
> 
> About it not being your thing--I meant that I didn't think you were
> Christian, not that you didn't know about the allegorical level of 
the work.

I was a Roman Catholic for 23 years, and although I know that penance 
can be assigned (accountability), absolution takes place before 
penance.










> Some fine points of theological detail might be missed by those of 
other
> religions, and I was attempting to clarify, that's all. There's 
loads of
> Wiccans on the list that I know of, and lots of other new-age type 
thinkers,
> and I sort of put you into the non-traditional-religion basket.
> 
> And regardless of your beliefs, in many (most?) works, Christianity 
tends to
> be the assumption unless otherwise stated, like it or not, just as
> heterosexuality does. I had sort of gotten the impression that an 
unthinking
> acceptance of such basic assumptions irritated you, just in 
principle. So I
> was afraid my expounding upon the particulars of the basic 
assumption might
> be irritating.
> 
> I hope that made sense; I'm real tired (kid Christmas parties at 
school,
> etc.).
> 
> --Amanda