asks Ed, and pascal disagrees with my comments. Well, pascal is often wrong about a lot of things but we won’t hold that against him. <\/p>\n
CS Lewis is the sort of atheist-turned-christian that spends most of his life writing things that are ostensibly object lessons but are really written to try to convince himself that his conversion to Christianity has merit. <\/p>\n
Bucketloads of people read his stuff, like Narnia and Screwtape, and shout with glee at the wonderfulness of it all, but in reality, Lewis has it so wrong he couldn’t be further from the truth of things. This is because he wants to make God in his own image, which is utter bullshit. This leads me to write a new Og’s law, and you can take this one to the bank:<\/p>\n
Anything written by a man which purports to reveal the mind of the Creator is a humbug. <\/em><\/p>\n Contrast Narnia and Screwtape with Twain’s “Diary of Adam and Eve” which is intended to be humor, but which does a better job of helping us to understand the Creator and our place in the universe than Lewis ever could. Lewis took the morality of the church and wove a story around it; the outcome is much like weaving a silk purse from leather buggy-tugs. You get the idea, but it’s strained and doesn’t fit, and illustrates fairly well the nastiness of which humans are capable. On the other hand, “Adam and Eve” illustrate the innocence and also the frailties of humans, and each of us can see themselves in the words of Adam and Eve, and we realize how much like them we are, and it helps us to understand why we are charged with the moralities to which we should adhere. <\/p>\n This is just my personal opinion. A lot of people just think Lewis is IT. Good for them. Jehova’s witnesses and calvinists think they are IT also. Good for them. I’ve never had any use for any of it, for the reasons above. I am suspicious of anyone who writes to send a message. I’m even more suspicious of anyone who writes to send a message of their interpretation of God’s plan. They’re most often wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" asks Ed, and pascal disagrees with my comments. Well, pascal is often wrong about a lot of things but we won’t hold that against him. CS Lewis is the sort of atheist-turned-christian that spends most of his life writing things that are ostensibly object lessons but are really written to try to convince himself that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}