Oh raykel you are absolutely right. I'm not one who has really delved into the peculiar capriciousness of Aslan but plenty of writers have. It's one reason why I've come to see the books as less Christian than many make them out to be, precisely because he's so far from the God I know. He rips four children from war and sends them off to another war, lets them grow up there and then sends them back with no explanation at all, lets his people suffer for over 100 years with the Witch and then hundreds of years under a brutal dictatorship that nearly wipes them out, he attacks and mauls a girl who is trying to escape a terrible familial situation, etc. etc. And then his solution, EVERYBODY DIES.

I've preferred dealing with him in a different way, but yep, there are plenty of folks who see many, many shortcomings there. One writer, Anastigmat, operates on an assumption that he's more like the capricious Greek and Roman gods. I sort of assume that since he says "I am true Beast" that he's not human, really doesn't relate especially well to humans, and just doesn't "get them."