The Last Battle – Chapter 7
By Alexis Record “So slavery is good and not believing is bad?” “Apparently in Narnia.” “But the Calormenes have slaves! And everyone keeps saying that’s why they’re the bad guys!” “Silly as it seems, Aslan gets special rules. Being free to think for yourself becomes bad if it leads you away from slavery to […]
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Was Jesus a real person?
A few years ago at a secular conference, I met the author Richard Carrier who wrote On the Historicity of Jesus. He introduced himself as one of seven people who did not believe Jesus was a real person. I was curious and I ended up reading his very lengthy and thorough analysis of the […]
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The Last Battle – Chapter 6
By Alexis Record “Wow, Jill is super great at stuff now.” “Probably because she’s dead.” “Wait, what?” “Christians have this belief that after you die you get a new body…” “No, stop. This makes no sense. When did she die?” “At the train station. She’s been dead this whole time.” “You go to Narnia […]
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When priests became celibate men
We have all read about the recent grand jury report of the abuse of over 1000 children by priests in the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. This report, of course, is not the first to charge the Roman Catholic Church with sexual abuse of children nor the first accusing leaders of the church of covering […]
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The Last Battle – Chapters 4-5
By Alexis Record “And that, honey, is why black face is wrong.” “Why did the book put it in there? They could have done something else as a disguise. Like a magic spell.” “Or hoods, or animal costumes, or capes. That’s a good point. An author is only limited by imagination. A responsible author […]
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Religion and Sexual Shame
By James A. Haught The World Health Organization once estimated that more than 100 million couples around the globe make love during a typical day. Sex is a powerful human force. It’s natural, healthy, normal and wonderful. However, Western religion has spent millennia tainting it with shame, guilt and punishment. Holy men equate […]
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The Last Battle – Chapter 3
Alexis Record “Aslan and Tash are the same thing? That makes so much sense!” “No, he’s lying.” “Really?” “Yep.” “But really? I mean, it makes sense.” “In this book it’s not Aslan doing all these things. It’s the ape and donkey pretending to be him.” “Aslan did plenty of bad things already in all […]
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On Atheism
By Plato Mamo Many Christians and perhaps some postmodern relativists like to accuse the atheists of being just as fanatical in their rejection of God as the Christians are in their belief. We, they say, choose to believe; you choose to deny his existence. Your obstinate refusal to accept God’s own revelation renders you […]
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The Last Battle – Chapter 2
Alexis Record “Great, the king murders people.” “He did seem to be itching to do it from the first page.” “He’s probably a bad guy that this book will say is a good guy since he loves war.” “Wars not make one great.” “What?” “Yoda.” “What?” “Tell me you know who Yoda is.” “…” “I’m […]
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Part III: The Society of Outsiders
Karen Bridges In parts I and II of this series, I discussed how Virginia Woolf illustrated the variety of ways religion played a role, not only in forbidding women from attaining education and employment, but insisting that it was the “natural order” of things. Religion was one of the many tools by which men […]
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