How can Susan have forgotten what Narnia was really like, and what she really experienced there, so much as to dismiss it as a "funny game we used to play when we were children"? That always really boggled me.
Well, in Romans 1 Paul says that all of us are guilty of the same thing: we all have the knowledge of God ("His eternal power and divine nature") given to us through natural revelation, but we willfully suppress it (literally "put a lid on it", as one does with a boiling pot to hold in the steam) in order to pursue idols (literal and figurative) that are more appealing to us. In that respect I find Susan's abandonment of Narnia all too realistic: no doubt it happened (as you say later in your comment) little by little, as she put her memories of Aslan and Narnia out of her mind more and more in order to concentrate on the things she most wanted out of her earthly life.
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Date: 2005-08-30 09:44 pm (UTC)Well, in Romans 1 Paul says that all of us are guilty of the same thing: we all have the knowledge of God ("His eternal power and divine nature") given to us through natural revelation, but we willfully suppress it (literally "put a lid on it", as one does with a boiling pot to hold in the steam) in order to pursue idols (literal and figurative) that are more appealing to us. In that respect I find Susan's abandonment of Narnia all too realistic: no doubt it happened (as you say later in your comment) little by little, as she put her memories of Aslan and Narnia out of her mind more and more in order to concentrate on the things she most wanted out of her earthly life.