shocked, really? as in Casablanca Inspector Reynaud Gambling at Rick's shocked? Yawn, I doubt it. It is the majesty of great literature that, like a prism, it can be refracted into many meanings. Personally, I did not find it Christian - I did find The Lion, Witch et al deeply Christian. As a touchstone, I am a Quaker Buddhist, agonistic on an afterlife. I have enough to do in this life.

Why are you so obsessed with sticking in to Christians? They are a disappearing species, making a foolhardy last stand with el Trumpo.

pd