St Patrick's Day Reading: 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe'

Ok, I have nothing against Harry Potter (in fact I absolutely love it) or Star Wars. I understand that a book without motive is a boring one, but that doesn't mean that you enjoy any motive ? My personal opinion is that religious one is not the best for children. Why? Because at the young age you are influenced very easily and some misconceptions that you'll get from some book will stay for a while. It's almost like religious propaganda for kids. Ok, maybe it's just my own stereotypes and I'm wrong- it's just I don't like both religious and antireligious propaganda.
the Voyage of the Dawn treader is also my favorite. Prince Caspian is probably the second one.

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Originally Posted by Boris239

Ok, I have nothing against Harry Potter (in fact I absolutely love it) or Star Wars. I understand that a book without motive is a boring one, but that doesn't mean that you enjoy any motive ? My personal opinion is that religious one is not the best for children. Why? Because at the young age you are influenced very easily and some misconceptions that you'll get from some book will stay for a while. It's almost like religious propaganda for kids. Ok, maybe it's just my own stereotypes and I'm wrong- it's just I don't like both religious and antireligious propaganda.
the Voyage of the Dawn treader is also my favorite. Prince Caspian is probably the second one.

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Ok, I can understand your point now. But really, there are a lot of parents who would prefer their children reading religious books from the time they are small. In a sense, Lewis is simply obeying the Book that he is drawing from:

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

However, I beleive that no matter what book a child reads it should be something that a parent is willing to guide them on. Too many people stick a book in a kids face and expect them to raise themselves. Anyway, I'll get off that soapbox before I get rolling.

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Originally Posted by Boris239

Ok, I have nothing against Harry Potter (in fact I absolutely love it) or Star Wars. I understand that a book without motive is a boring one, but that doesn't mean that you enjoy any motive ? My personal opinion is that religious one is not the best for children. Why? Because at the young age you are influenced very easily and some misconceptions that you'll get from some book will stay for a while. It's almost like religious propaganda for kids. Ok, maybe it's just my own stereotypes and I'm wrong- it's just I don't like both religious and antireligious propaganda.
the Voyage of the Dawn treader is also my favorite. Prince Caspian is probably the second one.

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I can undesrtand your objections, but I wouldn't really call it blatently religious. There are biblical themes, but they are only recognized if you also read the bible, have studied religious values. It is not so bad as compared to the horrible sunday school books, or shows like the vegitales. (now that is some very odd stuff)

Theoretically starwars or even harry potter has some religious themes. And I think it is true for much of the western literature, considering the influence of the bible on our culture. It is an ancient text, and just about everyone knows about it or the more popular stories from it, so people can commonly fall back on an old medium, I suppose.

But yeah, dawn treader is awesome. :thumbs_up

Is it too late to read this now??

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Originally Posted by Nightshade

Is it too late to read this now??

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I don't think so...I am not sure if our glorious mod has set a date for the chat :D

Nope, there's not a date... yet ;)

Great!



:D

:goof: heh, I keeps forgettin ol Jay is a mod now! :D

*grins moddishly* ;)

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Originally Posted by Jay

*grins moddishly* ;)

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1003/csmimg/1003p16.jpg

The first Image I had of a moddishly grinning person, "if memory serves"...Takeshi Kaga :D

So when be we discussin thar book!

In 1-2 weeks methinks. 2 sounds more like it I guess.

Didnt like it got bored...mind you some interesting things occurred to me while I was reading it ( actually I think they occured when I compared the film to the book I watched the film first) Anyway too lazy to read the rest of this thread will do soon-ish:D

So whens we be discussin it?

Where do I sign up for this discussion? :)