I don’t think enough children read George MacDonald, and I am certain not enough adults read him. C. S. Lewis summed up his writing perfectly in his introduction to a collection of MacDonald’s stories. His style isn’t that great but his stories are good. ‘Good’ in the real meaning of the term, morally good through and through. They are the kind of stories that make better men. Chesterton’s stories are all meant to accomplish this as well. They give us a brief glimpse at eternity poking into our world, for which Lewis borrowed a german word ‘sehnsucht’.
These men were not the sole creators of such work, this used to be the norm, but they are becoming more rare in the modern world. Most of the old faerie tales were in this vein. Including Pinocchio, which is why it is so maddening to see the bland soulless thing that Disney turned these wonderful, good stories into.
But this atrocity Knives Out is a whole other level of corruption. From moral tale defanged of it’s morals to pure evil stealing the devices of it’s creator to push it’s twisted agenda. Our culture is full on evil. Tertullian said that the “devil was the ape of God”. He is not creative, he can only steal and corrupt, twist. Lewis picks up the theme with his character in The Last Battle, an ape, called Switch, who masquerades as Aslan.
And so this movie masquerades as a sleuthing tale, when in reality it’s just preaching left wing nonsense about the downfall of presumably ‘white’ civilization at the hand of superior immigrants. The characters are ridiculous caricatures, which are merely the figments of leftist’s imaginations. Or more accurately the vary evil the left personifies, directed at their opponents. Because accusing the other side of what you are doing is really all you can do when you are the devil, the ape. And of course the whole movie is based on the lie that Trump put kids in cages. And it’s not artfully stated, it’s flashed on the screen like a satire of a Soviet propaganda film. Of course the fact is that Obama started this program and exacerbated the situation by encouraging immigration. Even Snopes, the left wing’s second level of lying to the media’s first, admits this. The lamest part is that while the host of rotten tomato lemmings think they are all part of an inside joke, every normal person who went to this movie and enjoyed it, proves them and the whole religious purpose of the movie wrong. America is not a bunch of racists, we have no problem with immigrants, and our measure for right and wrong is based solely on character, not skin color as those liberals obsessed with skin color can only surmise.
But this is a second or third degree lie built on a foundation of the lies of Howard Zinn, which masquerades as history in every institution masquerading as a University, across this nation. The real story is the one written before 1968. Christians took over the Roman Empire with love. That empire was assailed by various northern Barbarians, who won and then became Christians themselves. This is where ‘whitey’ comes in for you liberal nut jobs. Then the Medieval world, dreaming of the old glory days of Rome, built the most rich civilization the earth has ever known. Catholicism became corrupt was Reformed, and the fruit of that Reformation sailed around the world spreading the Gospel, not perfectly but they did it. Encountering any number of cannibals and other pagans, they laid down their lives and the world was changed. They gave birth to a new Nation based even more firmly on the Law of God, which spread the Gospel even farther and wider. That gave birth to another new Nation which was defeated, and now all we talk about is slavery. Then in 1968 the hippies decided that that old history was a little too Christian, so they fixed it for us. And that brings us to today, a bunch of ignorant fools blaming race, and accusing ‘whitey’ of confiscating the world’s wealth. When nearly the opposite is true. It was reported recently that only ten percent of the world now lives in true poverty. It was almost forty percent only twenty five short years ago. The story of the Gospel is incredible from the first day when a man rose from the dead to reverse the curse, to today when the world is becoming free from sin. But evil is not dead. The evil of Hollywood, Knives Out, Broadway, Hamilton, and all those who lie about the great things done on this earth by the Body of Christ, the Church, is real. We must keep fighting, tell better stories, sing of His greatness, remember, and put down these lies when we can. Middle Fingers up to Knives Out!
Further Reading:
anything else by George MacDonald
Pinocchio, Original and Unabridged by Carlo Collodi