The Selfish Giant

[Silas Thorne]

Yes, I know this story is chock full of religious symbolism, and I am not religious, but every time I read it aloud I start crying, it is just so touching. I wonder if anyone else feels the same. I don't feel it is a complex story as such, but I really recommend that others read this story aloud, as with Oscar Wilde's other children's stories.

Farewell my friends.

[Bitterfly]

I love that story as well!! And like you, I'm not in the least a believer. I think that atheists and agnostics can be touched by the fall/redemption structure, or even by religious motifs in themselves - I know I love Bach's music or Mozart's masses, in part because I sense something like mystical aspiration in them.

[SecretUmbreon]

I just think it's okay.

No offence.