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The first part of your first sentence is not correct.

Help! Help! I'm being micro-repressed!

He won't.

That's hilarious! (ahem..) No seriously, let's all get rally really offended, talk about this for a week straight and ruin this person forever!

Right, the question is, who do you side with, your parents or your television? Most of the people who think of themselves as rebellious individualists fighting the man, are really just siding with their T.V. against their parents/ancestors/communities. That's why the zeitgeist only swims to the left.

"I seriously don’t know where I got my politics from, but to give you an idea of my interests, my other favorite show was Captain Planet"

Alcatraz is a great, great album; Our Bodies Ourselves is great, Milk, Milk, Lemonade has some good songs,

What a loss?

Christmans can be about about Donald Duck?

point and sputter journalism.

The idea that normalization of single motherhood could have negative societal consequences! Ha. I bet he feels pretty silly now. Oh wait…

I thought Wiig did a SNL impression of Jessical Walter.  Didn't work for me, dog.

I don't know who sold you Narnia, but it was *always* intended in the Veggie Tales vein.  Anyone who is even slightly aware of history and literature knows this.

You know he also (and mostly) deliberately wrote for adults.  Read his "Problem of Pain" if you want to understand what he is saying in Perelandra.

natty,
It's no derogatory.  Lewis was the most famous Christian apologist of the 20th C.  His goal was a broad non-sectarian Christian evangelism (i.e. "Mere Christianity").  His most beloved works today include, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters (darkly humourous letters from a senior Devil to his nephew with

LoTR is also an explicitly Christian work, though in a very different way.  The Inklings were an explicitly Christian group with an explicitly Christian goal which they made no attempt to hide.

Could you produce a quote there, chief.  CS Lewis most famous book is "Mere Christianity".  Did he not intend to create a religious message in his book "Mere Christianity".  You are making shit up.  The Narnia books are obviously intended as Christian allegories for children and were marketed as such.

Narnia wasn't "Bait and Switch", it was explicitly intended to help young people understand Christian theology.  Lewis was already famous as a Christian apologist before he ever wrote the LtWatW.  I read it to my four year old as a way of introducing Christian theology.  This is its raison d'etre, and its quite well