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   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Naturally, but that was only because in England we were able to convince   
   ourselves that there were no Catholics, and essentially hadn't been, except   
   for the odd little flare-up, since Henry VIII.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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