[HPforGrownups] Re: Books burnt in Germany too!!

[tobeybickle at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15495

In a message dated 3/29/01 3:50:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk writes:


> My friend's husband works in a Christian bookshop, which sells CS 
> Lewis, and other allegorical fairytales.  It makes me  so sad that so 
> many people are jumping on a bandwagon without having the gumption to 
> pick up the books for themselves.  Do they think that they are going 
> to be corrupted by them?
> 
> Catherine
> PS. My friend doesn't believe evolution or that dinosaurs existed 
> either - church doctrine again.  Why???!
> 

I think Tolkien is a better example. The man was a hard-core Catholic, and he 
viewed his books as entirely moral, and yet they're full of  witchcraft and 
stark depections of evil. But there are two issues here.. 1) In order to show 
the value of good, you must be honest about evil and 2) depicting something 
is a lot different than condoning it.

As for not believing in Dinosaurs.. that's just mind-blowing.


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