Anti-religious hysteria
January 28, 2006
The sub-title for this interesting essay is “It is the Anglo-American cultural elites’ insecurity about their own values that encourages their frenzied attacks on religion.”
spiked-essays | Essay | The curious rise of anti-religious hysteria
The intense and venomous attacks on the Disney-produced Narnia film are truly puzzling. The novelist Phillip Pullman has described CS Lewis’ original book as ‘one of the most ugly, poisonous things I have ever read’. With the zeal of a veteran cultural crusader Polly Toynbee of the UK Guardian cut straight to the chase: ‘Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion.’
Another snippet:
The sense of desperation with which some opportunist politicians are searching for moral values indicates what they really hate about the Narnia film: that Aslan is not on their side. Aslan possesses a superabundance of faith - something that the cultural and liberal elite conspicuously lack.
I think author Frank Furedi is on to something. Perhaps the greatest value of this essay, written by a secular humanist, is to help Christians stand tall in the face of attack. Read it.
Dave, appreciating fresh insight into the cultural wars.
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