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In my childhood and teens, i read the Chronicles of Narnia over a dozen times and loved them. They seemed far mor real to me than any fantasy literature had a right to be. The Christian concepts were always floating at the edges of perception, and given my Catholic upbringing, hard to totally ignore, but i did, even as teenaged atheism kicked in.
In later years, i'd read a fair amount about Lewis's relationship with Christianity, but recently found one of the most persuasive arguments to be one, made by numerous hardcore believers, that Lewis was really cloaking his inherently "Pagan" agenda in a false Christian guise. Folks advancing this theory very much disapprove of the themes and storylines in the Narnia books, and find it greatly greatly disturbing that they have been perceived as very Christian works. Initially, i scoffed at the ideas, but have seen at least a few very good cases made by some that Lewis really was trying to subborn the dominant paradigm (so to speak) in advancing a radically different agenda. I wish i hadn't lost the link to the most well constructed of these arguments, but you can find a lot by googling Narnia and Pagan.
CS Lewis: Crypto-pagan....
