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I can think of a lot more. When are they gonna get on with it, anyway?

Date: 2005-05-11 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cargoweasel.livejournal.com
I too pray to the Lord Jesus above to send the Rapture soon.

Date: 2005-05-11 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shavastak.livejournal.com
And then...wooohoooparTAY!

Hooray for Paganism! *snaps elastic band of party hat in anticipation*

Date: 2005-05-11 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikoshi.livejournal.com
Despite the fact that I don't think she's fit for Hell or Heaven, do you think that we can convince Christ Jesus to take Ann Coulter, too? Sort of like, as a side-bonus to Phelps and Falwell and the rest?

Date: 2005-05-11 04:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athelind.livejournal.com
Can't we just feed her heart to Ammut?

Date: 2005-05-11 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
Wrong pantheon. Ann Coulter belongs with the Furies, Conservative Bile Branch.

Date: 2005-05-11 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikoshi.livejournal.com
For a second there, I thought you'd just misspelled 'Furries.' And I was about to be very, very confused.

Now, the question is, is Ann Coulter more of a Fury than a Harpy? Or perhaps just a Shrew?

Date: 2005-05-11 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
Oh, do NOT get me started on the Conservative Bile Branch of Furrydom.

And yeah, maybe she'd do better as a Harpy. It'd be nice if she were forced to communicate only through a bike horn.

*looks around* ...something I said?


Incidentally, I heard there's someone out there doing a furry-fied reinterpretation of Shakespeare. He's starting with a story about one stoat's struggle to control a group of monsters: The Taming of the Slew.

Date: 2005-05-11 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jirris-midvale.livejournal.com
I'll have a lot of fun with that. I mean, nothing will feel better than laughing at a fair number of rather annoying 'true christians' who didn't catch the jesus-bus.

Date: 2005-05-11 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-caton.livejournal.com
I thought it said "ruptured"....
*oooo*

Date: 2005-05-11 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] archteryx.livejournal.com
Too bad the Rapture is mostly an invention, in modern times, of Tim LaHaye and the other christofacists. :P

If I want Christian allegory, I'll go read Narnia. At least C.S. Lewis knew how to keep his political opinions out of his literature (by all I've read, he was a moderate).

This is in contrast to LaHaye and company, that make their political opinions the core of their so-called literature!

Date: 2005-05-11 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
At least C.S. Lewis knew how to keep his political opinions out of his literature

Well...yes and no.

Tolkein's Drinking Buddy did have a few political ideas that found their way into Narnia, but most of them were fairly typical for his period -- the inherent nobility/superiority of the Englishman, for example.

Date: 2005-05-11 05:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] archteryx.livejournal.com
Huh. That's a new one on me, and from what little I've read of Narnia, it makes sense. But I was more thinking the Christian politics infecting discourse today. He was quoted at least once as saying that he kept his political opinions out of his religion, thinking it a good idea on priciple.

Maybe he just was from a different era, and he'd have been more LaHaye like today. I hope that's not the case.

Date: 2005-05-11 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
I think it fair to say that, for the most part, Lewis did keep real-world politics out of his work.

But literature is always informed by the zeitgeist to some degree, and many people act on cryptonymic assumptions -- assumptions they do not realize they make.

That being said, however, I agree that "the Christian politics infecting discourse today" are another animal enirely.

Date: 2005-05-11 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] archteryx.livejournal.com
That's an interesting observation about zeitgeist. But as you said, there's still a HUGE difference between literature like Lord of the Rings and Narnia that are informed by their times, and 'literature' like Left Behind, that has a blatant political message written into it, and is designed to appeal to a very specific set of people.

A set that I would quite happily see Raptured, just to get them the hell out of my life, but that's another story entirely.

Date: 2005-05-11 08:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
But as you said, there's still a HUGE difference between literature like Lord of the Rings and Narnia that are informed by their times, and 'literature' like Left Behind, that has a blatant political message written into it, and is designed to appeal to a very specific set of people.

Oh, you mean that Narnia and LotR were written by people with talent? Or maybe that Narnia and LotR are allegories, trusting in the intelligence of their readers to get the point rather than bludgeoning them over the head with it?

(Though I'd argue that Lewis does a fair bit of bludgeoning toward the middle of the series: "I have another Name there, and you must learn to call Me by that name," sayeth the Lion who'd just been a Lamb.)

What really gets me is that the loudest, most vocal "fundamentalists" in this country come from a deviant faith themselves. Bunch of bloody splitters...

Date: 2005-05-11 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] archteryx.livejournal.com
(Though I'd argue that Lewis does a fair bit of bludgeoning toward the middle of the series: "I have another Name there, and you must learn to call Me by that name," sayeth the Lion who'd just been a Lamb.)

Hey, at least Aslan didn't pronounce the head of the U.N. the Anti-Aslan and proceed to burn friend and foe alike. :P

Not sure what the term 'splitters' means but I'll bet it isn't very complimentary.

Date: 2005-05-11 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
"Splitter" is an epithet from The Life of Brian, applied by the Judean People's Front to the People's Front of Judea, the Frontal People of Judea, the Judean Frontal People, and any other schism (split-off) group that forms.

Date: 2005-05-11 08:59 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] richardf8
By today's standards, That Hideous Strength could be considered quite political. He struggles with everything from Medical Ethics to Propaganda in that book. Of course, he was in many ways a libertarian.

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