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  "thread": {
    "id": 1238,
    "subject": "Can I get a witness?",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-02-27T10:40:20+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-27T10:40:20+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0378@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-27T10:40:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Can I get a witness?",
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          "text": "Dan'l originally wrote:\nI often wonder what non-Christians see in him, but then I wonder\nthat about Lewis too (and have atheist friends who are positively\nrabid, or rabidly positive, about Narnia, so go figure)."
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          "text": "Let us not forget that there are plenty of \"Christians\" who hate\nNarnia.  Good old Jack T. Chick who writes and draws those perversely\nfascinating hardcore born-again tracts about little kids who listen to\nrock & roll and become satanists has denounced the Narnia series in\nhis tract on the evils of fantasy role playing games.\n\nI don't consider myself a Christian, though I cannot help but be\ninfluenced by Christianity, since our culture is rich with it and my\nfolks were both nominally Protestant.  I have read the bible as\nliterature and myth and I have known and loved many people who do call\nthemselves Christians.  I am unquestionably influenced by Christian\nthought and I live in a nation founded by Christians.  As a child I\npledged allegiance to my country, under God.\n\nAlthough it's not a perfect fit, I can say that I enjoy the Christian\naspects of Wolfe's fiction as I appreciate good Gospel music or Reggae\nmusic (both of which I love) without being a Christian or a\nRastafarian.  Perhaps that music brings me a little closer to those\nfaiths as well.  \n\nI can certainly recognize the Christian elements in Wolfe's fiction,\neven when they're somewhat obsucre, the \"resonance\" is felt, which is\nexactly what Wolfe intends, I think, in the same way that he chooses\nhis old and obscure words: he knows that we can probably make an\neducated guess at their meanings but he also encourages us to look\nfurther, to look the words up.  And so it is with his Christian\nthemes.\n\nShellac\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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