XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:36:25 UTC, Siwel Naph    
   wrote:   
      
   > What if a war is under way between two or more COMPETING versions of M.C.?   
      
   What if they played cricket with a rule of "three LBWs and you're out"?   
   [Hoping that the example will taken as tribute and not as presumption.]   
   Well, they wouldn't and they couldn't, because that's not cricket.   
      
   And religious wars, particularly against other Christians, even those who   
   are not Mere, is not Mere Christianity.  (Self-defense? That's impossible   
   if both sides are Mere.)  At least, so I understand the position of Lewis,   
   who hated even such a pecadillo as compulsory chapel, and offended one   
   Christian friend by his laissez-faire attitude toward things like   
   unchastity among unbelievers.   
      
      
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