(Interestingly, Aslan was so powerful he was able to successfully tackle Narnia’s decades-old problem of what we would now call ‘catastrophic climate change’ or even perhaps ‘global cooling’ simply by exhaling his hot leonine breath across the frozen Narnian wastelands!) Lewis’, author Louis Markos writes: ‘In Aslan, we experience all the mighty paradoxes of the incarnate Son: he is powerful yet gentle, filled with righteous anger yet rich with compassion he inspires awe and even terror (for he is not a tame lion), yet he is as beautiful as he is good.’Įnviable qualities that, apparently, Mr Pyne sees in the former prime minister, as no doubt do Mr Turnbull’s ever-dwindling band of adoring disciples – from fashionista and former foreign minister Julie Bishop to treacherous crossbencher Julia Banks and uninspiring backbencher Craig Laundy. In ‘Thinking About Aslan and Jesus with C. Lewis, a passionate Christian proselytiser, intended it to. If that ‘love-triumphing-over-death’ scenario sounds familiar, it’s because C. But then, thanks to the healing power of love and prayer, Aslan comes roaring (literally) back to life. Yet despite his omnipotence, Aslan is betrayed by a traitor close to him and is sacrificed to the White Witch who humiliates and then executes him. Lewis’s seven books that comprise The Chronicles of Narnia, published in the 1950s and read by every self-respecting and upstanding schoolkid throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s.įor those not familiar with the delights and perils of the fictitious world of Narnia, Aslan is the Christ-like son of its God as well as the Creator of its Earth. Mr Pyne’s plaintive cry that ‘Malcolm is Aslan to me,’ refers, of course, to the lion king made famous in C. ‘Malcolm is Aslan to me’, proclaimed the Defence Minister, in a peculiar article in the Sydney Morning Herald published on the very day that a) his new boss, Scott Morrison, finally stepped up and started behaving and speaking like the conservative prime minister many have been longing to embrace and b) Mr Pyne’s and Mr Turnbull’s ludicrous French submarine contract – designed to give us lawnmower-engine subs sometime later this century – was back in the news thereby providing, intentionally or otherwise, plenty of media distraction from both those events.
A touch of hyperbole (or ‘hyperbowl’ as Julia Gillard used to say)? Not at all.
In other words, Malcolm Turnbull is akin to Jesus Christ. With impeccable timing, increasingly-eccentric Defence Minister Christopher Pyne this week leapt out of some bizarre theological closet to declare that his devotion to former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull goes far beyond the normal political loyalty to one’s factional boss and more resembles the devout worshipping of a Messianic, Christ-like figure.
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