Here you go — this particular web site thinks The Lord of the Rings is evil, evil, evil. Why, you ask?
Well, for one thing, Tolkien was, well, you know, Catholic. No, seriously.
And he hung out and drank beer with C.S. Lewis, who was also kind of Catholic. And he was a professor of pagan languages, and loved pagan mythology.
And, you know, there are wizards who are good. And it’s not Biblical, or even a Christian allegory. And, you know, it inspired (gasp) Dungeons & Dragons. And hippies and rock-and-rollers liked it.
The world knows its own; and when the demonic world of fantasy role-playing and the morally filthy world of rock and roll love something, you can be sure it is not godly and it is not the truth.
Indeed, the only good thing the particular review has to say about LotR is that it’s “not as overtly and sympathetically occultic as the Harry Potter series.”
Yup, any time you have an article that starts off by chiding Focus on the Family for being soft on something, you know entertainment is about to ensue …
(Of course, Pokemon are also evil and Satanic, so, what do you expect?)
(via Andrea)
Well, Pokemon are satanic and evil. But at least they aren’t Yugio… 😉
I wonder if they were invented by (gasp) Catholics? I mean, there’s that whole sort of “Pikachu, patron critter of lightning bolts,” etc., sense about them.
These were some new ones to me. Thanks, they were worth the chuckle.
Did you see that the Vatican decreed that Harry Potter is cool?
Yeah, well, sure — they’re Catholic, you know, so they’re naturally in favor of occult stuff. Jeez, where have you been?