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   From: toomuchspam@spammer.org   
      
   John McComb wrote:   
      
   > C.S. Lewis is admired and respected by all kinds of people   
   > who have no love for the Gospel message. It's not unusual   
   > to see posts in this group (and others) where people like   
   > these accuse him of all sorts of sympathies and beliefs   
   > that would make the author shudder were he able to read them.   
      
   This is what interests me. Why do people so easily misinterpret messages   
   that seem so plain? Then turn around and accuse US of the same thing? It   
   happens elsewhere, of course: with Nietzsche, for example.   
      
   > Mere Christianity is only a book written by a very devout   
   > Christian man. It is devoted to topics of discipleship and   
   > arguments that address objections that were common in the   
   > secular world at the time. Personally I think CSL would   
   > have been deeply offended by the obtuse reverence it   
   > receives from some quarters.   
      
   Why do you think these quarters are so obtuse?   
      
   > I certainly don't think he   
   > would have been very enamored by the drift of this thread.   
      
   In what ways, exactly?   
      
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