XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis
From: bree@bree.com
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:16:36 GMT, "Dan Drake" wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 05:04:09 UTC, Bree wrote:
/snip/
>The usual behavior of velievers in Anything is a poor
>guide to Mere Anything. It seemed to me that the point ws being lost in
>suggestions of, for instance, religious wars among Mere Christians.
Snake handlers have always been a small minority among Christians. :-)
I don't think the AIDS=Judgement people are really much of a percentage,
and I don't think it got very far up the current chain of command.
Religious wars did involve quite a large percent of Christians, and were
begun by the Pope and Calvin and people like that, weren't they?
So it's a question of whether religious wars, which did occur once in our
world, might recur in Naph's posited MC-world. I don't know enough about
Naph's world to guess.
Was it Lewis or who, who said that the theological issues of those wars
never actually got settled; people of a later generation just decided they
weren't important enough to fight about. Or, decided that because they'd
led to wars, they'd better be declared unimportant. And all other theology
declared unimportant too, and out with the bathwater, just in case....
Lewis thought theological issues were important. A world of people
believing in MC would think they were important. So there goes the current
patch against fighting about them. A world of people who all believed MC
would be so different from our world, it's hard to predict the details.
If Lewis ruled the world, I suppose he'd forbid such wars. But I'm not sure
that Lewis's preferences are all built into MC, or that readers of MC would
all get them if they were.
Bree
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