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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Steve Hayes"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:506594ttifudupu9netv6nd148p65q06b1@4ax.com...   
      
   > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:55:22 GMT, Sindamor@Pandaturion.mor.dr wrote:   
   >   
   >>I have always been puzzled by Tolkien's unhappiness with CS Lewis's   
   >>conversion, instead of to Catholicism as Tolkien hoped, but rather to   
   >>what he described as Ulster Protestantism.  Does anyone know what that   
   >>is all about?  I've always heard CSL described as mainstream   
   >>Christianity without overt doctrinal affiliation.   
   >   
   > Lewis was Anglican, and also from Ulster. In Ireland Anglicanism was a   
   > minority religion, and tended distinguish itself selfconsciously from the   
   > Catholics. It tended to be a bit more "in yer face" towards Catholics than   
   > the   
   > average member of the Church of England of Lewis's generation.   
      
   I have no recollection of Lewis being contemptuous of Catholicism. If   
   anything, the boot was on the other foot; Tolkien despised the Church of   
   England and was very disappointed that Lewis did not become a Catholic when   
   he embraced Christianity.   
      
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