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   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   >>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?   
      
   Right-thinking folk who do not believe Christianity requires us to   
   persecute heretics, imprison and/or burn witches and gays, say AIDS is   
   sent by God, etc. Of course, to those wrong-thinking folk who did/do   
   stuff like that, it's us who...   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Both would have been banned and/or burned at one time.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Discussing an allegory is getting real?   
      
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