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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
2.0

Commits the cardinal sin of using children’s literature to push religion. Not even via derivative rebirth fables featuring distracting lions and ice witches, but with actual plain old sanctimonious Christian cant.

Even followers of Jesus must admit that it’s foolish to suggest him as some sort of inter-stellar, multi-universe totem of goodness. Whatever else you think of him, he didn’t say anything that a whole lot of other people, religiously motivated or otherwise, haven’t said throughout history. Just because the author and characters are old-fashioned middle-class white Americans, doesn’t mean everyone else in the multiverse is, was and ever shall be.