Like most idols, we often worship outrage unaware. As we slavishly follow outrage, we mistakenly believe our service is to Christ.
God is calling us home and may use Wakanda or Narnia, Hogwarts or Middle Earth to stir our homesickness and point us onward.
C.S. Lewis details how patriotism can be a good and healthy sentiment, but it can also turn into idolatry without our realizing.
Good stories that reflect the great Story fail to alarm those dragon biases in our listeners. Stories fail to raise the alarm despite carrying dangerous ideas, the most dangerous in fact—the gospel.
It took a process for C.S. Lewis to arrive at the point where he recognized Christianity as truth, but once that was grasped, he was never the same.