I try to keep Christian apologists away from my children.

Narnia's a good story despite the propaganda lurking under the surface. His other writing is awful, though.

So edgy.

It's not about edge. My children are free to make up their own minds about what they do with their lives when they reach an age where they can reason for themselves. Until then, I do my best to keep any ideological or religious influence from trying to exert itself upon them.

> My children are free to make up their own minds about what they do with their lives when they reach an age where they can reason for themselves.

That assumes that reason, not emotion, is the primary motivator, no?

> Until then, I do my best to keep any ideological or religious influence from trying to exert itself upon them.

'Be nice to others' is ideology (albeit very weak). I imagine that you don't keep that from them.

>'Be nice to others' is ideology

I don't think 'Be nice to others' is ideology. It may be part of an ideology, but I don't think that it an ideology in itself.

'Be nice to others' is also not a totalizing idea in the same way that Christianity is - not everything in the world happens because somebody was or was not nice to others. Christianity takes as its base that everything is/was the will of their god.

Narnia is only an "ideological or religious influence" if you're already very familiar with Christian symbolism. 99% of children will never get the references.

CS Lewis is pretty good... I read the Chronicles of Narnia around the same time I started reading Harry Potter. What do you think about Philip Reeve?

By the way, I wasn't asking to challenge you... I'm just a big fan of childrens' fantasy!