Talk:Aslan/@comment-128.186.147.161-20110714164426

In defense of Aslan not being equivalent to Jesus, he doesn't die for all of humanity, like Jesus supposedly did. He dies for Edmund's sins of greed and pridefulness (which incidentally, are the things that Lucifer gets thrown out of heaven for--though, greed for power, not Turkish Delight--according to Augustine of Hippo. NB: Augustine greatly influenced the structure of Christianity as we know it, and Lewis was a great believer in his theology. Lucifer has no body in Augustinian theology, so the ideas that the "bodily sins"; lust, fornication ect, ect were originally committed by Lucifer aren't possible). The other three children don't do anything, so the correlation between Edmund being all of humanity doesn't exactly work. The other thing that doesn't fit is at the end of the Silver Chair: Eustace, Jill and Caspian get transported back to the human world, and, "with the strength of Aslan in them" they go hit and attack the bullies at the school-the boys are armed with swords, Jill has a riding-crop. The scene isn't really congruent with the loving-kindness Aslan usually displays (recall Aslan before his sacrifice in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe- he seems incapable of violence). Essentially, Narnia looks like a Christian allegory, but be careful of blatantly saying that. There are holes in the argument on both sides.