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From: jerry_friedman@yahoo.com
On 2/12/15 11:46 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:33:28 -0700, Jerry Friedman
> wrote:
>
>> On 2/11/15 2:45 PM, Adam Funk wrote:
>>> On 2015-02-11, Wayne Brown wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>>> The founder, Bob Jones himself, was only barely convinced that
>>>> C.S. Lewis was on the up-and-up. He once said, with evident
>>>> surprise, "That man smokes and drinks, but I do believe he is a
>>>> Christian!"
>>>
>>> I'm told that a lot of American fundamentalists like C.S. Lewis on the
>>> basis of some of his writings, the ones about women obeying men ---
>>> but they ignore that he wrote that particular stuff while he was
>>> single, as well as that he drank, smoked, & prayed for the dead.
>>
>> It's easy to find on-line articles by American fundamentalists who think
>> that though Lewis may have believed he was a Christian, he was a
>> pernicious heretic and quite possibly under the influence of the Devil.
>> How representative those articles are of the fundamentalist population
>> I don't know.
>
> Probably not very representative, but I suspect that Fundamentalists are a
lot
> less representative of Protestantism, even in the US, than many people seem
to
> think.
I'm not sure why you're saying that. The topic was specifically
fundamentalists.
> Those who regard Lewis as a heretic seem to be mainly of the
> ultra-Calvinist persuasion.
>
> See here, for example:
>
> http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/church/6-heretics-should-b
-banned-evangelicalism
You did see that the article ends with a plea for tolerance, right? I
don't see where the article connects anti-Lewis beliefs to Calvinism,
and when I've read articles calling Lewis a heretic, I haven't noticed
any Calvinism--though I might miss some hints.
--
Jerry Friedman
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