Good versus evil: Downplayed, or overplayed?

[Lush]

I just thought it was interesting how two such diverging viewpoints can spring out of what appears to be the same source.

The article I link to above is, at least, a good indication that Christians are not a homogenous group and Christian attitudes toward Tolkien and how he should or shouldn't be represented on film can, and will, diverge.

Considering how easy it is for one to assume what and who is or isn't Christian (hee hee), I thought this article might be good to bring up.

[Lord of Angmar]

The article I link to above is, at least, a good indication that Christians are not a homogenous group and Christian attitudes toward Tolkien and how he should or shouldn't be represented on film can, and will, diverge.

The article certainly is a good indicator of that, though I hope non-Christians who read the three articles being discussed in this thread don't think that the only heterogeneousness of Christians lies within the viewpoints displayed in said articles.

[Lalaith]

I cannot bear to continue writing about this tripe

I feel the same way, Lord of Angmar...but just to clarify the Crowley issue, I believe that one of the Inklings (Thomas?) belonged to another organisation that Crowley briefly was involved in. That's as far as the association went.
Which gives a good indication of the veracity of the rest of the article.

[The Saucepan Man]

I believe that one of the Inklings (Thomas?) belonged to another organisation that Crowley briefly was involved in. That's as far as the association went.

I thought as much. I did a google search on "Crowley and Inklings" and could find nothing to connect them, save that this Inkling Handbook has a reference to Crowley. Oh, and apparently there's some novel which has the heroic Inklings taking on the despicable Crowley.

Crowley is certainly a notorious figure and was most definately an occultist (a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn) and a practitioner in mysticism, so (even though I do not believe some of the more ludicrous and extreme claims about him) I would have been surprised if he had ever been on anything approaching talking terms with Tolkien.

[Saraphim]

I'm sorry, but that article Lush provided made me laugh. Particulary when they blamed homosexuality on the Inklings.