Quote Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)
I can't remember the details, but how do you see this as a Christian parable?
*spoilers!*

Xayide convinces Bastian that he needs to take over Fantasia (Fantastica in the translation I read) and in the name of doing good he does much bad — very reminiscent of an anti-christ figure. The second arc follows a clear sin-redemption Christian path. "The manipulators" have diabolical overtones, and the childlike empress clearly identifies herself as not fantastican, nor human. The implication that I got was that she is some angel-like being. In my Bastian as antichrist formula, the tower at the center of fantasia would be like Jerusalem. Juraselem, too, was thought to be the literal center of the world.