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Originally Posted by Mojo Jojo
I think everyone is looking at this in one direction, everyone is focusing on the book (or movie) and forgetting the basic point of what it means to be in this world.
That is life is a perception of the one viewing it.
If you remove the person who believes in christianity and replace them with someone who grew up during or war or participated in one, their understanding of the story corrolate with their own feelings and thoughts.
You can replace that viewer with any combinations and get a different outcome. Neither is right nor wrong.
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Quite right. Everyone is entitled to their opinions providing they don't hurt anyone else. The extreme cases are those affected by books like Catcher in the Rye who claim in court that the fictional work "instructs" them in some way. Everyone has their own limits on what is right and wrong, but some limits are more clear-cut than others.
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Language and understanding are based on building blocks. Take the definition of 'Apple' "the fleshy usually rounded and red, yellow, or green edible pome fruit of a tree - Merriam Webster".
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Alternatively 'Apple' is "the only hope for desktop computing and the medium through which I make a living - Steve Jobs" :wink:
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This book (or movie) is made for entertainment and not a definition or 'truth' (unless you need to define how to destroy a ring of ultimate evil in a land of hobbits, dwarves, elves, and dragons :wink: )
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Nowadays somebody would just have written the FAQ for how to search for a weapon of mass destruction whilst living in a fantasy land (wait... hold on... is this fiction?).