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🗓️ 24 March 2025
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Jon talks about how fiction can either be harmful or helpful depending on how well it conveys something true about reality itself. How should Christians think about Lord of the Rings or Star Wars? How should they depict the world in their own art?
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1:01.1 | all right All right. Welcome to the Conversations, That Matter podcast. I'm your host John Harris. It is another hot take from the truck. And I want to talk about fantasy and whether or not Christians should engage in fantastical or fictional literature and films. |
1:29.5 | And this might surprise some of you, but I have been in circles where this can be a little |
1:33.7 | bit controversial and people have different opinions about this. |
1:36.6 | I remember years ago, I was in a writers club where one of the people who came actually chided everyone there for writing stories, some of which |
1:47.3 | were fantastical because he thought that you should only write stories that were about the Bible. |
1:54.0 | That was the only piece of literature, I guess, that was acceptable. |
1:57.9 | I've also run into people who think that allegories are okay, like CS's |
2:03.0 | C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, but something like Tolkien is not because it's not an allegory. |
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