The Nazis were neither Christians nor Atheists (remember "Ein Reich, Ein Gott, Ein Fuehrer"? No? Well that WAS one of their slogans), according to their own propaganda. Hitler despised Christianity as a weak religion, and the official "ology" of the Nazis was the Norse -- although they sided with the giants and not the gods!

CS Lewis was NOT a theologian, and was the first to admit it. He was a "popularizer" of Christianity the way Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould is a "popularizer" of astronomy and biology, respectively. By profession he was an english professor.

Murray, if that is your definition of Christian, then count me out, because I don't buy the "conceived in sin" thing. That's a distortion of the teaching of the early church made by Augustine and perpetuated by Anselm and then the Reformers. If you're looking for a set of "fundamentals" to determine the content of Christian belief, why not use the one the Church herself wrote, 1700 years ago? I refer of course to the Nicene Creed.

As for LOTR, or Narnia, or Harry Potter, I don't see how you can read any of them and come away with a desire to be evil or to reject God. They all clearly delineate between good and evil, and come down quite clearly on the side of Good.

Alex