XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 5 Oct 2005 07:20:12 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Who is "us" in this context?   
      
   I read "Mere Christianity" once, a long time ago, but I think that Lewis   
   managed to communicate Christianity better in his fiction than in his overtly   
   theological works.   
      
   For what it's worth, he did write a book on the kind of subject suggested by   
   this thread -- "The great divorce".   
      
   So perhaps if we want to get real, we should be discussing that.   
      
      
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