'Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion'

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MikeWM:
Did you go to St Aloysius? I’ve not been to a service there, but it seems a very nice Church. I don’t know the other Catholic churches in Oxford. Still, Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge is the church to go to 😉

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St Aloysius sounds familiar but it was back in 2000 and my memory is foggy . . . it was on Woodstock Road, if this helps. I lived in a house on Canterbury Road and it was only a few blocks away.

I dated a guy at Cambridge and spend a lot of time there too. I remember walking through a brick maze (almost) a few blocks from the main shopping area to get to a inner chapel for church there.
 
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JGheen:
St Aloysius sounds familiar but it was back in 2000 and my memory is foggy . . . it was on Woodstock Road, if this helps. I lived in a house on Canterbury Road and it was only a few blocks away.
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Quickly looking on a map, that’s almost certainly it.
I dated a guy at Cambridge and spend a lot of time there too. I remember walking through a brick maze (almost) a few blocks from the main shopping area to get to a inner chapel for church there.
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That’ll be Fisher House, the University Catholic Chaplaincy. I used to go there quite a bit - reasonable, but a bit ad hoc (given they used the hall for various other things at different times of the week).

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Yep! And yep! Everything sounds familiar. Thanks for helping clarify my foggy memories. I’ll can’t wait to go home tonight and look through pictures now.
 
It starts. Every time we get an inkling of religion, here come the atheists. :tsktsk:
 
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MikeWM:
He is mentioned, yes. Reminds me that I need to finish reading His Dark Materials sometime; I’ve been stuck in the middle of book two for months :o

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Pullman’s books are actually pretty good, as literature. I enjoyed them, but got annoyed with the preachiness. I certainly wouldn’t give them to a child of mine to read until I felt that child had the critical thinking skills necessary to deal with them. I find it interesting that even though I’m able to see the story-telling merit in Pullman’s overtly anti-religious books, this columnist is unable to admit the merit of books whose symbolism she admits small children won’t understand. As to older children with critical thinking skills whose parents want to raise them atheist, why not expose them to religious works of literary merit? For this columnist to use her hatred of religion to malign a literary classic is a bit arrogant. I have a strong disagreement with fatalism, but I like Hardy.

The double standard here is so obvious and so ridiculous. Religious people can’t object to secularism and sinfulness being “shoved down our throats,” but it’s the duty of everyone else to object to any public display of religion. To be fair, maybe this particular columnist is okay with religious objection to anti-religious films. Somehow, given the past behavior of liberal atheists, I doubt it.
 
I read that article that the first post wrote about; I was … disturbed.

It seemed so hateful. It felt like the White Witch talking; trying to instil doubt in us.

I will pray for the woman who wrote that article.
 
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Gilderoy Lockhart.
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ROFL. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it would certainly fit with the personality that seems to come through his writings. Even though I enjoyed the stories, my boyfriend couldn’t get through 50 pages of the first one. He put it down and said he was tired of the author’s arrogance confronting him on every page. I’m not judging whether or not Pullman is arrogant, because I don’t know him. But many, many people have judged the tone of his books to be arrogant, even before they perceived any atheist agenda.
 
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bapcathluth:
My theory that the British are so anti-religous along with other Europeans is that they don’t have separation of church and state. People here who rail about separation of church and state should think about the repercussions. Here in the US we have freedom of religion, no establishment of religion and separation of church and state. This causes less resentment against religion and less cynicism. This article is not just this woman’s opinion but the opinion of a large number of Brits.

We should all work to keep our separation of church and state or we will get more and more people with these opinions here.
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This is probably going a bit off thread, but I think you are being too simplistic here. Europe, and particularly Britain suffered from the Reformation, which caused violent changes in society because of religion (which was intertwined everywhere with the state at that time). In Britain it went from Catholic to Protestant, back to Catholic, and then back to Protestant. And then there was the “Enlightenment” period which was extemely ant-religion, out of which sprang the Labour Party.
 
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