The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe

Although I haven't read the book, The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, I have read news stories and synopses of it and I have grown interested in it. The live action movie that is coming out soon is a hot news story and I have become motivated to go and see it despite my lack of reading the book. All over the news, the buzz about this movie about being an awesome allegorical view of Jesus's sacrifice has caught the attention of various churches. The story is about four children who are in WWII England who stumble upon a wardrobe and get transported to a magical realm in which they must liberate from the evil White Witch. They find the lion Aslan, who resides as king of the forest and in order to save the realm Aslan must sacrifice himself. It's surprising to me to see that churches have rallied together and supported this movie because Christian churches are typically against movies that have religious aspects, especially anything to do with Christianity (i.e. Passion of the Christ). Many people, like the atheist Michael Newdow might see this movie as an capitalization of Christianity in order to convert people or impose Christian views onto non-Christians. I don't think he or others like him would be correct because movies like this teach us fundamental values like selflessness and courage, not close-minded sermons or condemnations. The good triumphing over evil theme has almost always won over audiences of different views, religions and such. I may be wrong, and that Micheal Newdow guy might like this movie, but I know there will be people out there that would disagree about the Christian messages in this movie. Overall, this movie is going to be a good movie because of it's powerful delivery of such a wholesome and universal message to the world.