Narnia Hate Watch Begins

Over at RedState.org, they've started a Narnia Hate Watch, to highlight examples of the media's hatred for the Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It comes out on Friday, 9 December, and has been heavily marketed to churches because of its very well-established Christian themes, which the Left hates.

The media have already written outrageous, hateful things. You can read the examples here.

Here is a particularly heinous example:

We begin today with Polly Toynbee of the UK Guardian. Hers is a confused and uneven polemic. Disney’s marketing of the film to Christians irks her; she warns that the company “may come to regret” this strategy in Britain, claiming (against the evidence) that The Passion of the Christ “bombed” in the UK. She goes on to speculate that British secularism will make for some “embarrassing questions” about the Christian allegory of the story. She writes, “After a long, dark night of the soul and women's weeping, the lion is suddenly alive again. Why? How?” It might be replied that this difficulty (or opportunity) is hardly unfamiliar to the church: some very obscure Christian figures have wrestled with it before. They go by names like Saint Paul and Saint Peter.

Then this:

Of all the elements of Christianity, the most repugnant is the notion of the Christ who took our sins upon himself and sacrificed his body in agony to save our souls. Did we ask him to?

Wicked woman.

If you come across an example, e-mail Paul Cellas, of RedState.org.

(Curtsy to Rich Lowry, at NRO.)