Five things

[woodwindy]

Questions from the awesome zsof1. If you were guaranteed a spot on American Idol, would you do it

Comments

[den_down_unda]

Narnia, for sure, as long as I get to pick when-i.e., not during the reign of the White White or the Telmarines before Caspian X.

[shalmestere]

Is this one of those "Comment and I'll give you five questions" meme?

I don't think that Aslan would give you a hard time; aside from the sorta-ecumenism at the end of The Last Battle, Narnia itself isn't a Christian place--with all those centaurs and satyrs, I don't see how it could be anything but Hellenic :-D

[den_down_unda]

The constant references to Plato are a clue that Narnia is in fact a Christian place. Neo-Platonism was a key intellectual movement in early Christianity, adapting Platonic principles to Christianity. St. Augustine was a major neo-Platonist

Lewis and Tolkien both believed that pre-Christian mythology provided imperfect reflections of eternal truths, preparing the world, as it were, for the reality of the Incarnation. In Lewis's views, thus, satyrs and river spirits were not incompatible with Christ.

[shalmestere]

Actually, I was being facetious (guess I should have enlarged the emoticon) :-D

[den_down_unda]

Ah. Sorry. I'll stop talking now. :)

[arathreel]

Is it sad I know nothing of Harry Potter so I would go with Narnia by default?

At least I would be warmer than the Ice Queen. =D

[zsof]

re: your house

Your house is definitely filled with love and light. I loved being there for that short time. It felt like home, which was so wonderful. :)

[contrariety]

I believe Aslan is on record as saying he is cool with you not being a Christian - in The Last Battle he's pretty down with Emeth, the Calormene soldier who worshipped Tash, more or less on the grounds that if you're doing good because you're trying to be good, you're good. ("Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath's sake, it is by me that he had truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him." Granted, here he's talking about someone who'd been doing it in the name of a different (evil) god, but I don't see why that should be any better to Aslan than someone doing it in the name of general humaneness and decency.)