XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 05:22:04 UTC, Bree  wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:49:14 GMT, "Dan Drake"  wrote:   
   >   
   > >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.   
   >   
   >   
   > Huh? Bzzt.  The question wasn't Mere Lewisism, was it?   
      
   Well, no, but I thought that the writings of the person who invented the   
   term and made it part of the language, so that it's pretty much impossible   
   to use or hear the tram without thinking of him, might conceivably play   
   some relevant part in the discussion.  Of course, a demonstration that he   
   didn't understand it all would be in order; in which case we'd better have   
   a new fundamental (pardon the expression) textbook of what it's about,   
   since I sure don't know.   
      
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