Livre d'Or

His Christianity is a very different sort than mine, perhaps I should leave it at that. :P (I have been told that I might like some of his later stuff more - that after he married a Jewish divorcee and she pointed out that he had his head up his ass, he got a little better on some things - but it's not really a high priority!)

And I wouldn't even say I was all that cynical (yet)! But our church's teaching was really big on Christ being fully human when he died (a human who was also fully God, yes, but--), and on the sacrifice changing everything, but also that it only had power because it was a real death of a real human -- it meant he gave up everything that was part of his life on Earth, forever, and maybe he could come back and say Hi but his friends didn't even recognize him anymore and nothing was the same. So my reaction was basically that if he is a magical glowy Lion who just wanders back up same as ever if you kill him, you are epically missing the point of the Crucifixion.

...heck, Dr. Who Sparkly Tinkerbell Jesus did it better, and I don't think I've ever said that about Sparkly Tinkerbell Jesus before.

I suspect Lewis thought that doing the Crucifixion properly would be too much for kids, in which case he didn't just miss the point of Christ, he missed the point of kids...

(I was also completely freaked out by the "They lived their entire lives as kings and queens and then had to go back and pretend nothing had changed" bit too. I shouldn't give the impression that the Jesus thing was the main reason I noped out. I mostly noped out about the "they had to go back and pretend to be kids and Lewis though it would actually work? And this was a good thing rather than incredibly creepy? WTF!"

...although perhaps that is also related to him missing the point of sacrifice. And of kids.)