Reply #20: The one problem with anything literary

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is that you can write religion or anti-religion into any or all of it, regardless if it exists or not.

As a child, I read all of Narnia, and never saw the Christian allegory it was claimed to be: you don't analyze text at the age of 12 or so.

The same holds true for every piece of writing out there--from Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings, to Philip Pullman's series, or anything else, including the bible, which, to a child is the same as Grimm's Fairy Tales or Mother Goose. Whether they were written deliberately as one or the other is completely irrelevant.

Many of the so-called Xtians out there--meaning those who say they are, but have never acted like it--will see anything not conforming to their narrow-minded expectations as anti-Christian. And since they're the ones who are the most anti-Christian "Christians" in existence, that means almost anything existing. Never mind that anything might stretch a person's mind--they don't mind questioning the intent behind existing literature, but they must never question their perceived god's plans.