O Brave New World...

I discovered the Screwtape Letters in high school and remember thinking they were clever. But I think the nuns never gave C.S. Lewis to us in grade school. Hell, our school was so minimal that we did not have a library. I really don't know where books in our house came from when I was a kid. Anyway, I blush to admit that I did not know what Narnia was and thought we were taking my nephew to just another Christmas movie. Last year we saw Polar Express - what do I know?
So I had no prior acquaintance with the book to compare with the Disney version. And nobody told me in advance that we were going to a kid's version of Mel Gibson's Passion - in English. My reaction was, as they say, unmediated. Simply on the terms of the movie, sado-masochistic misogynist militarist nationalism, I fled. As someone pointed out in a comment, that pretty much describes modern western Christianity.
Sorry about the long comment. This just turned out to be very interesting.