What creeps me isn't that it's Christian propaganda. What creeps me is that it's inaccurate Christian propaganda.
Lewis is quite clear that Aslan the Lion is Christ in another form - at one point Aslan tells the children that they have been allowed to know him in Narnia so that they will know him in their own world.
But Aslan isn't the Christ of Lewis's church (the Church of England); it's his own creation, meting out punishment on whoever Lewis doesn't like. Look at the way the books pour out contempt on Eustace because he's a pacifist, contrasting him with Reepicheep the swashbuckling mouse, who takes insult at every little thing and, well, "lives by the sword." Somewhat the opposite of what Jesus taught, as I recall. Aslan hasn't come to offer everyone in Narnia hope if they'll accept it. He's come to reward the people Lewis likes and punish the people he doesn't.
I don't want to get into the NT's views of women, but Lewis is worse - Aslan is killed by a woman; one girl is literally damned - excluded from heaven - because her teenaged interest in "nylons and boys" has somehow caused her to forget her time in Narnia; a classroom of "dumpy, prim little girls with fat legs" is unworthy of Aslan's company.
From a theological standpoint, perhaps the most egregious scene is the end of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, where Aslan gives the boys swords (and has the girl cut a switch) to beat up their schoolmates. John Goldthwaite wrote of this sequence "I cannot imagine a betrayal of one's faith more complete than this last picture of Christ at the playground, putting weapons into the hands of children."
(For a more complete treatment of this subject, I recommend Goldthwaite's The Natural History of Make-Believe.)
"The things that letter say speak volumes about how children need to feel about themselves."
I have no access to Word's internals, but I suspect it's using "letter" as a verb, and it thinks the subject of the sentence is "The things that letter". It's then asking for the plural form of the verb, "say", since "the things that letter" is plural.
Although I suppose the selection should then be punctuated "The things that letter say 'Speak volumes about how children need to feel about themselves.'"
"The things that letter." I wonder if that's who wrote all those eldritch texts Lovecraft was always warning about?
I'm a translator, and not only do most translation jobs come in as Word documents, my favorite computer-aided translation tool, WordFast is a set of Word macros that segments source texts, automatically uses the correct language tools for source and destination languages, recognizes and saves previously translated segments, and, in general, makes my life much easier. There's no open-source alternative at present, and, even if there was, translation jobs often specify Wordfast (or Trados, or other specific proprietary packages.)
The subtle variation on "Everyone uses a different 10% of the features" is that the larger your company, the more likely you are to share documents with someone who needs those features you don't care about. They may well be wedded to Word if the alternate programs don't provide the features they need. Additionally, if your company uses several WP programs that can save to a common file format, you're also increasing the number of programs your IT department has to support.
But girls and boys are treated differently by those around them from birth. Parents describe baby boys and girls differently, even if objective measurements don't show a difference. Toddler boys and girls are praised and criticized for different behaviors. Cf. Stern and Karraker, ``Sex Stereotyping of Infants: A Review of Gender Labeling Studies''. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 20 (1989) 501--522.
A typical quote: "Parents responded more positively to girls than boys when the toddlers played with dolls, and more critically to girls than boys when the toddlers engaged in large motor activity."
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What creeps me isn't that it's Christian propaganda. What creeps me is that it's inaccurate Christian propaganda.
Lewis is quite clear that Aslan the Lion is Christ in another form - at one point Aslan tells the children that they have been allowed to know him in Narnia so that they will know him in their own world.
But Aslan isn't the Christ of Lewis's church (the Church of England); it's his own creation, meting out punishment on whoever Lewis doesn't like. Look at the way the books pour out contempt on Eustace because he's a pacifist, contrasting him with Reepicheep the swashbuckling mouse, who takes insult at every little thing and, well, "lives by the sword." Somewhat the opposite of what Jesus taught, as I recall. Aslan hasn't come to offer everyone in Narnia hope if they'll accept it. He's come to reward the people Lewis likes and punish the people he doesn't.
I don't want to get into the NT's views of women, but Lewis is worse - Aslan is killed by a woman; one girl is literally damned - excluded from heaven - because her teenaged interest in "nylons and boys" has somehow caused her to forget her time in Narnia; a classroom of "dumpy, prim little girls with fat legs" is unworthy of Aslan's company.
From a theological standpoint, perhaps the most egregious scene is the end of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, where Aslan gives the boys swords (and has the girl cut a switch) to beat up their schoolmates. John Goldthwaite wrote of this sequence "I cannot imagine a betrayal of one's faith more complete than this last picture of Christ at the playground, putting weapons into the hands of children."
(For a more complete treatment of this subject, I recommend Goldthwaite's The Natural History of Make-Believe.)
And Fourmilab has the original novel by H. G. Wells online. It was first published in 1898 and it's still fun.
actually, the website you referenced DOES show it as a removed scene.
Are you certain? There's a screenshot from that scene on the page, but the text only discusses
I thought the parent meant "didn't they delete the whole scene?", including the kiss for luck. Sorry if I misread it.
I don't see this listed as a change in the exhaustive list of Special Edition changes.
Personally I'm most intrigued by the small decisions - the removal of a flame effect from the shooting of an Imperial Officer, or the translation of the tractor beam label from English to Lucasian. (That was changed in the 2004 edition, not the SE.)
I don't quite see myself sitting at my office going,(read out loud)
if parenthese parenthese invar bitwiseor zero x three parentheseend equals
No, but I can sure see myself saying
mesh spark-spot slat usr slat bin slat perl
I'd learn all those good old Intercal names for the ASCII characters and have myself an office with a door within a week.
The wrong guy wins a close election because of a problem with a butterfly?
"The things that letter say speak volumes about how children need to feel about themselves."
I have no access to Word's internals, but I suspect it's using "letter" as a verb, and it thinks the subject of the sentence is "The things that letter". It's then asking for the plural form of the verb, "say", since "the things that letter" is plural.
Although I suppose the selection should then be punctuated "The things that letter say 'Speak volumes about how children need to feel about themselves.'"
"The things that letter." I wonder if that's who wrote all those eldritch texts Lovecraft was always warning about?
I'm a translator, and not only do most translation jobs come in as Word documents, my favorite computer-aided translation tool, WordFast is a set of Word macros that segments source texts, automatically uses the correct language tools for source and destination languages, recognizes and saves previously translated segments, and, in general, makes my life much easier. There's no open-source alternative at present, and, even if there was, translation jobs often specify Wordfast (or Trados, or other specific proprietary packages.)
The subtle variation on "Everyone uses a different 10% of the features" is that the larger your company, the more likely you are to share documents with someone who needs those features you don't care about. They may well be wedded to Word if the alternate programs don't provide the features they need. Additionally, if your company uses several WP programs that can save to a common file format, you're also increasing the number of programs your IT department has to support.
But girls and boys are treated differently by those around them from birth. Parents describe baby boys and girls differently, even if objective measurements don't show a difference. Toddler boys and girls are praised and criticized for different behaviors. Cf. Stern and Karraker, ``Sex Stereotyping of Infants: A Review of Gender Labeling Studies''. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 20 (1989) 501--522.
A typical quote: "Parents responded more positively to girls than boys when the toddlers played with dolls, and more critically to girls than boys when the toddlers engaged in large motor activity."