From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   Note: this is a duplicate because, apparently, it was set to respond   
   only to alt.christnet.christnews and I did not notice that.   
      
   On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:21:12 -0600, Christ Rose   
    wrote:   
      
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   >Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:47:43 +0200   
   >   
   >Steve Hayes  wrote:   
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   >> I asked Grok “What did C.S. Lewis have to say about white supremacy?”   
   >>    
   >> And Grok replied:   
   >>    
   >> C.S. Lewis did not directly address "white supremacy" as a specific   
   >> modern ideological term (which gained prominence later), but he did   
   >> comment on racial issues, colonialism, and the evils associated with   
   >> claims of racial or national superiority in ways that strongly condemn   
   >> the attitudes underlying white supremacy.   
   >>    
   >> In his essay collection Christian Reflections (in the piece discussing   
   >> the imprecatory Psalms and applying their spirit of cursing evil),   
   >> Lewis wrote powerfully against the historical abuses committed by   
   >> white Europeans during the colonial era. He described the "White Man's   
   >> offence" in these terms:   
   >>    
   >> "All over the earth the White Man’s offence ‘smells to heaven’:   
   >> massacres, broken treaties, theft, kidnappings, enslavement,   
   >> deportation, floggings, beatings-up, rape, insult, mockery, and odious   
   >> hypocrisy make up that smell."   
   >>    
   >> This passage reflects a deep moral outrage at the pattern of   
   >> exploitation, violence, and hypocrisy perpetrated by white colonizers   
   >> against other peoples (whom he refers to as "Red men, and Black, and   
   >> Brown and Yellow"). It directly indicts the kind of racialized   
   >> domination and assumed superiority that characterized much of European   
   >> imperialism and aligns with a rejection of white supremacist practices   
   >> and attitudes.   
   >>    
   >> Lewis was also critical of nationalism when it escalates into claims   
   >> of inherent superiority. In The Four Loves (in the chapter on   
   >> "Patriotism" or love of country), he warned against the progression   
   >> from healthy love of one's home and culture to demonic forms of   
   >> nationalism that claim racial or national supremacy, leading to   
   >> cruelty, oppression, and even extermination. He described how such   
   >> distorted patriotism can declare, "Dogs! Know your betters!"-a clear   
   >> repudiation of supremacist hierarchies.   
   >>    
   >> He further critiqued the modern obsession with equality in a way that   
   >> highlights his opposition to envy-driven resentment of any   
   >> superiority, but he supported practical equality of rights and dignity   
   >> under God, while rejecting any idealization of flat equality that   
   >> denies natural differences or hierarchies of virtue.   
   >>    
   >> Some critics have accused Lewis of unconscious racial bias or   
   >> "Orientalism" in his fiction-particularly in The Chronicles of Narnia,   
   >> where the Calormenes (a desert people inspired by Middle Eastern/Arab   
   >> cultures) are often portrayed as antagonists with stereotypical traits   
   >> (dark-skinned, turban-wearing, expansionist). Authors like Philip   
   >> Pullman and some academic analyses have labeled elements of his work   
   >> as implicitly racist or tied to white supremacist assumptions of the   
   >> era. Defenders argue these reflect common literary conventions of his   
   >> time (pseudo-medieval crusader-Saracen dynamics) rather than   
   >> deliberate advocacy, and point to positive elements like the   
   >> redemptive arc of a Calormene character (Emeth) in The Last Battle or   
   >> the depiction of an interracial marriage in the series.   
   >>    
   >> Overall, Lewis's explicit statements condemn racial oppression,   
   >> colonial atrocities, and supremacist arrogance-rooted in his Christian   
   >> belief in the equal dignity of all people before God-while some of his   
   >> fictional portrayals have been seen by later readers as reflecting   
   >> unexamined cultural prejudices of mid-20th-century Britain. He did not   
   >> endorse white supremacy; where he addressed related evils, he   
   >> denounced them.   
   >>    
   >> --------- end of Grok's reply ---------   
   >>    
   >> Do you agree with Grok's assessment?   
   >   
   >   
   >The opposite of trusting in Christ for salvation, is allowing people to    
   >manipulate, control, and plunder you with false guilt. For the believer    
   >in Christ, our identity is "saints". We have Christ's righteousness    
   >imputed to our accounts. I will not afflict myself with false guilt over    
   >sins I never committed, just so someone who resents white people can    
   >seize control and assets.   
      
   Spoken like a true racist.   
      
   But don't worry -- if you have faith, you will be saved anyway.   
      
   As will all those you despise, under the same condition.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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