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The Church is threatened by the idea that knowledge and truth could be more powerful than God. That the only knowledge which can be true is the word of God. Okay, I understand why they find these books threatening - but it is a sad commentary on religion that they do. It also represents a classic missing the forest for the trees approach (i.e., getting bogged down in doctrine and scripture instead of understand the basic concepts of love and good over evil). (And I can't help wondering if the fact that Rowling is a divorced mother has anything to do with the vehemence, too.)

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
The Lord of the Rings is equally Christian as the Chronicles of Narnia, just less blatantly and showily so. Tolkein's main reason for writing it appears to be that he found the earlier fantasy epics (in particular Eddison's The Worm Ourobourous) lacking in moral fibre. Even the Hobbit seems to be written mainly as an illustration of three moral points: power corrupts, actions have consequences, and everything has a cost both morally and physically. I honestly can't see how anybody claiming to be a Christian would find any of those objectionable.

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Also, general comment, is no one else interested in seeing Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter even after I posted the link to the trailer for the movie??? How can this be?

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

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Also, general comment, is no one else interested in seeing Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter even after I posted the link to the trailer for the movie??? How can this be?

I sent the trailer link around and everyone was like, "Is this for real?" lol.

I missed Buffy when it was on TV and M and I are working our way through it and Angel. We've just started season 6 of Buffy and 2 of Angel - NO SPOILERS!

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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
The Lord of the Rings is equally Christian as the Chronicles of Narnia, just less blatantly and showily so. Tolkein's main reason for writing it appears to be that he found the earlier fantasy epics (in particular Eddison's The Worm Ourobourous) lacking in moral fibre. Even the Hobbit seems to be written mainly as an illustration of three moral points: power corrupts, actions have consequences, and everything has a cost both morally and physically. I honestly can't see how anybody claiming to be a Christian would find any of those objectionable.

You know what's interesting about this. The three moral points: power corrupts, actions have consequences, and everything has a cost both morally and physically are well demonstrated in one of the great pieces of pagan mythology - The Iliad.