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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:41:28 -0700, Jerry Friedman    
   wrote:   
      
   >> Yes indeed. I think that is a good summary, but I don't think it quite   
   >> explains the antipathy of some Fundamentalists to C.S. Lewis, which is what   
   >> Jerry was talking about.   
   >   
   >As you know, they explain it with that atonement thing.  Also they say   
   >that in /The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe/, Peter, Susan, and Lucy   
   >show no sign of either Christianity or sin.  And in /The Last Battle/,   
   >Aslan says that he rewards those who do good deeds in the name of Tash,   
   >apparently the Devil.  To a fundamentalist, nothing could be more   
   >heretical, afaict.   
      
   I once saw a film produced by Fundamentalists, I think, or it may have been   
   Evangelicals with Fundamentalist tendencies. It was called "The burning hell".   
      
   It showed the gospel story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, and included some of   
   the disciples of Jesus going to Lazarus and telling him he must accept Jesus   
   as his personal saviour, which he did. And they said the same thing to the   
   Rich Man, and he didn't.   
      
   So, though they say the Bible is inspired and inerrant, they still have to   
   correct the errors of omission of the preaching of the 20th-century American   
   Protestant Gospel to the Rich Man and Lazarus, without which the latter could   
   not have gone to heaven. It is that kind of thinking that leads to the sort of   
   thing you mention, about Peter et al in Narnia showing no sign of Christianity   
   or sin.   
      
   It also shows the essential modernity of Fundamentalism (in spite of their   
   origins being anti-modernist) -- the reduction of everything to a set of   
   principles which must then be applied with a kind of maniacal consistency.   
      
      
      
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