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To: Fantasywriter
I didn’t mean to imply there wasn’t evil depicted in the story. How could anyone watch the movie and miss the evil?

I don't see what that has to do with my refuting your contention of it being a Godless world.

71 posted on 08/23/2011 2:08:28 PM PDT by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: Wissa

Actually, I said my impression of the movie was that it depicted a godless world, yet also featured true believers. That was my impression, and I asked for input on it. To be honest, the tone of the thread hasn’t been conducive to discussion. I’m really not inclined to pursue the matter. I’m not a King expert, and I’ve mentioned several times I’m not as familiar with his stories as many posting on the thread. I think I should let it go at that.

I’ll just add this. The worldview of Christians is not one of darkness. We have come out of darkness into divine light. We can’t write of a dark world since that’s not the one we live in. We can depict evil and truly wicked people, as well as catastrophes and other tragedies and disasters. But underlying it all is the kind of Light that God, with the Advent of His Son, brought to believers everywhere. This is why I can’t write ‘dark fantasy’, though it is very popular. It’s simply incompatible with a world in which God is both Good and Omnipotent.

King’s work has always struck me as dark. Dark in the literary sense, I mean. Perhaps your impression of his novels differs. We can agree to disagree.

I hope that’s satisfactory, because I don’t want to get mired in the argument any further.


73 posted on 08/23/2011 2:27:54 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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