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Aslan, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed: Liam Neeson and the Narnia press controversy

 

If all I knew about The Voyage of the Dawn Treader came from the general press conference I attended after the Royal Premiere in London last week, I would come to a pretty startling conclusion: Aslan is like Christ, but could just as easily be like Buddha or Mohammed.

Some outlets -- from London's The Daily Mail to The Catholic News Agency -- report that Christians are upset and angry about comments made by Liam Neeson, who is a professional actor and not a theologian. But the proper response to such misguided statements is compassion and education. The knowledge that someone so close to the characters can so fully misunderstand their power only emphasizes the need for Christians to go to the film with friends (or, as Douglas Gresham -- C.S. Lewis' stepson -- aptly noted, "take your enemies; you're supposed to love them, too"). That way, we can talk about the film, exploring its themes, and, if necessary, about Neeson's statements to the press.

Before you go, ask yourself: What can we, as Christians -- Read On
 
   
 
   

When jihad-bent American Muslims target American soldiers on American soil, why does America yawn?

The Fort Hood massacre has faded from view. The Little Rock Army recruiting station ambush barely registered on the national radar screen. And the arrest this week of a Baltimore-area bomb plotter, intent on blowing up a military center and murdering our troops in the name of Allah, was met with a collective shrug. It's pointless to rally citizens around "never forget" when their heads are in the sand.

Civil liberties absolutists are more outraged by the alleged "entrapment" of Muslim convert Muhammad Hussain than by his bloodthirsty scheme to blow up an Army recruitment office in Maryland. According to the FBI affidavit, Hussain "indicated that if the military continued to....Read On

 
 
 
 

A law enforcement official says Bernard Madoff's eldest sons was found hanging by a dog leash in his living room, dead of an apparent suicide Saturday on the second anniversary of his father's arrest.

Mark Madoff, 46, was found hanged in his apartment in Manhattan's fashionable SoHo section, according to the official. A family member notified police around 7:30 a.m. The official says Mark Madoff's 2-year-old son was asleep in his bedroom at the time. Read On

 
 
 
 

MADRID -- More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside the British Embassy in Madrid late Saturday to protest the detention of the founder of secret-spilling website WikiLeaks and the closing of the site's Swiss bank account.

The Spanish-language website Free WikiLeaks said protests were scheduled to be held in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville and at least three other Spanish cities. Read On

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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