Sunday, April 29, 2012

I was thinking today about Christianity and Atheism, not an uncommon occurrence really. My thoughts?
Atheism has never been able to Kill Christianity, not matter how hard they try. Except for once, and that was when they crucified Christ and literally killed God incarnate. But then.. that was when Christianity was born.

I was also thinking about queen Jadis when she entered Narnia. the book says that she heard Aslan's song and understood it and it made her angry. Most people say that she is comparable to Satan in our world but at this moment in the story I am inclined to think that she is distinctly Human. Uncle Andrew and Queen Jadis were both Magicians of their own sorts and believed that they were above the common law, that they were above morality, but their reactions to the song were differant. Uncle Andrew was afraid and would have crawled through a rat's hole to get away from the song, But Jadis was differant.
Jadis hated the song.
In Charn she had been the last queen, she had faught her sister in the last civil war; both had agreed not to use magic against the other, but the one sister broke that rule and as she walked up the steps of the temple to meet her sister Jadis prepared her own treachery. When her sister had come up to her and looked her in her face she spoke the deplorable word that destroyed all life in Charn.
She was a cruel woman, having stood in the streets listening to the beating of the sacraficial drums, the lashing of the whip and the groaning of the slaves.
When She heard aslan's song she knew that he was creating a new world, she knew that the pure, perfect notes of his vioce contained a power far greater and lasting than her own. She saw his perfection and the perfection of the new wold and she hated it. She hated what she saw and she hated what she heard and she hated that she could do nothing about it.
Her reaction was entirely human. There are people who fight against God, they do not want to surrender to his will. They want to order their own lives. For whatever reason they are angry at God. They hate his calling, they understand it but they hate it all the same. They hate him and they fight against him.

that's my thoughts,
Haley

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