"Now that I've developed several of those character traits myself, I have a lot more sympathy for her, and I feel a lot worse about her fate in Last Battle. Not that I have any doubt that she eventually makes it to the New Narnia." Read Neil Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan" and ask yourself, Does Susan want to go to New Narnia or Heaven or whatever you want to call it? The Problem of Susan has much in common with the Problem of Job--how can an omniscent, omnipotent god permit, even encourage evil? The point of Gaiman's story is that, viewed from Susan's perspective, Aslan is just as bad, just as evil as the White Witch--Aslan, not the White Witch, murdered her family and took away from her everyone she cared about. A malevolent, capricious god, is that someone really worth worshipping?
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Date: 2006-01-01 10:15 pm (UTC)-- Allyn