![]() Frankenstein and, in ignorance, or in my formation by the countless works of sin-twisted media I have consumed, or in plain sin, writing something horrible. But how do we love monsters without perpetuating their monstrosity?īut the scarier possibility than loving a bad story is becoming Dr. I live in tension between an admonition ingrained in childhood to only “think on whatever is good, pure, and holy” and an equally central belief that the ultimate good act is loving the monstrous enemy. The oldest, largest, and most grievous iconoclast movement, often perpetuated by art itself, has been against the image of God, a perpetual assault on other people. Harm is the monster in art, more so even than falsehood or folly. committing a failure in the love to which we, Christians, are urgently commanded? ![]() The question before you and me now is w hat, then, shall we rightly love? Put differently, what can we love without causing harm to others, i.e. Perhaps the story itself, which could be read as an endorsement of Stockholm Syndrome, is not rightly loveable.įrancis Schaeffer’s big question, “how shall we then live?” is not, precisely, the primary question of our time. The beautiful, scary question Beauty and the Beast asks is who and what is lovable ? I love the implication that reading books breeds compassion and an imagination for relationships with the broken. My favorite Disney princess is Belle from Beauty and The Beast. ![]() Seuss’s books reminds us again how vulnerable even children’s literature is to prejudice, which is sin. ![]() My co-worker has given up a long-time hobby of watching football because entertainment at the cost of concussions and perpetual injury of young men weighed too heavy on his conscience. If I purchase almost any mass-manufactured good, I am likely participating in unethical labor and the abuse of people and creation. Is there anything not nibbled by the moths of greed, oppression, and harm? ![]() I love two things: Christian faith and English literature.Ĭould I have picked two passions more fraught with problems and tainted histories? “As the memory of past misfortunes pressed upon me, I began to reflect upon their cause-the monster whom I had created…” - Frankenstein, Mary Shelly Our theme for the month of March is “monsters.” ![]()
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