#The lion the witch and the audacity how to#
They never had to figure out how to pursue a child-like faith when you’re not an actual child.
#The lion the witch and the audacity series#
I remember loving the Narnia series as a kid. The others never had to balance growing up and having their faith evolve and grow as they got older, much less get jaded and traumatized by your entire family dying really young in a single day. The Lion, The Witch, and THE AUDACITY Photo by David Bartus via Pexels. That’s without even mentioning the fact that the other children died young in a train wreck at the ages of 17, 18, and 21. Yet, Aslan’s country has room for people who followed Tash, the ol’ dirty bird god, which is refreshingly universalist for a devout protestant, but also inconsistent with the way Lewis kicked Susan to the curb (eternally) for failing to be interested in magic once she grew up and, ya know, had to get a job and dress like a grown-up. Why doesn’t he say that and help them out? The worst part is, if you’ve read The Magician’s Nephew, he has literally been to this world already. What exactly does the professor wish that people learned in school? To believe in something despite the evidence? Maybe that tells you something about trends in modern politics, but I don’t want to get too much into that here. Oh I don’t know, like…believe your eyes and there’s no such thing as magic? It’s a weird thing. Maybe she just imagined it and wanted to share it with you? Then, when the conversation is over, we hear the professor talking to himself after their encounter, wondering what they’re teaching kids at school these days. Shop The lion the witch and the audacity of this bitch the-lion-the-witch-and-the-audacity stickers designed by Word and Saying as well as other the-lion-the-witch-and-the-audacity merchandise at TeePublic. Unpacking this logic in the reverse implies that if she’s not being entirely truthful, she must be crazy.
There’s way more nuance even to real life conspiracy theories than this, and there’s less sexist ways to frame the conversation about your female sibling acting weird. However, when the children go to the professor, he begins by giving them a false dichotomy: Either your sister is crazy or she is telling the truth. Maybe there’s more than meets the eye here. So you might ask yourself, maybe this wasn’t the intention.