Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Sneak Attack
I am not one that tends to think a movie, any movie, even a "Christian" movie will, in the end have that big an impact on the Kingdom of God. In then end, it's just a movie and God is, after all, about people.
However, after seeing a church/state attack on the upcoming Narnia movie last week - now comes a rather vicious attack from the Christian left.
No Love? How silly of me, self-sacrifice unto death cannot possibly be motivated by love, it is obviously some viciously narcissitic form of self-agrandisment.
Given the attacks that are being leveled at a movie not yet even seen, I have to wonder if God doesn't have mighty things in store for this film? Why else would the enemy kick and scream so hard?
However, after seeing a church/state attack on the upcoming Narnia movie last week - now comes a rather vicious attack from the Christian left.
But Pullman said the Narnia books contained "a peevish blend of racist, misogynistic and reactionary prejudice" and "not a trace" of Christian charity.Oh, where to begin. Let's see -- No Christian charity? Of course not, Aslan only has himself killed in order to save the life of the wretched Edmund, no charity at all there.
"It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue," he added.
"The highest virtue - we have on the authority of the New Testament itself - is love, and yet you find not a trace of that in the books."
No Love? How silly of me, self-sacrifice unto death cannot possibly be motivated by love, it is obviously some viciously narcissitic form of self-agrandisment.
Given the attacks that are being leveled at a movie not yet even seen, I have to wonder if God doesn't have mighty things in store for this film? Why else would the enemy kick and scream so hard?
