I'm from the US, I think most of my friends have read at least TLTW&TW. I read the entire series in kindergarten and watched all the BBC productions. We even did it as a school production one year when I was maybe 11 or 12. The only problem was that it was a secular school, so Santa was a no-no (this would probably not have been a problem at a public school, only a lefty secular private school). Santa became Mother Solstice. Some kids did some research, found out the whole story was a Christian allegory, and came back to say, what is wrong with you adults that you say we can't have Christian things in our play, but are stupid enough to have us stage a production of a play that's all about Christianity?
I was pretty amused at how clever we were, and remain appalled at the idiocy of the adults involved. I'm also still very sad at having learned that the books were all about Christianity, because that sort of ruined them for me. We also read his Space Trilogy in high school (at an Anglican school), and that stripped away any remaining warm fuzzies I could have ever had for Lewis. Somewhere in between the "Nazis are all sadistic lesbians" and "heterosexuality and good Christian patriarchy will kill the bad guys", my childhood sort of threw in the towel.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2015-06-29 04:33 am (UTC)I was pretty amused at how clever we were, and remain appalled at the idiocy of the adults involved. I'm also still very sad at having learned that the books were all about Christianity, because that sort of ruined them for me. We also read his Space Trilogy in high school (at an Anglican school), and that stripped away any remaining warm fuzzies I could have ever had for Lewis. Somewhere in between the "Nazis are all sadistic lesbians" and "heterosexuality and good Christian patriarchy will kill the bad guys", my childhood sort of threw in the towel.