XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: bree@bree.com   
      
   On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:49:08 GMT, "Dan Drake"  wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 17:46:12 UTC, Bree  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Even now different groups admire the book -- but use it to support their   
   >> differing views.   
   >>   
   >   
   >And if they go to war with each other over those views, then they have   
   >clearly failed to understand  the book. (Just like the New Testament, one   
   >could say, except that the comparison might annoy Lewis.)   
      
   Worse than annoy. :)   
      
   >So say I; others may disagree and send their armies out after me.   
      
   I suppose we're reading different assumptions into Naph's wardrobe premise.   
   I asked him how many generations had been in that world, and got not much   
   answer.   
      
   If the premise was that when MC was published, c. 1940s, it became a world   
   best seller and converted everyone -- then we'd have a world of people who   
   had all lived through all the modern wars and were worried about WWIII etc   
   etc, and you'd be right: nobody in their right mind now would support a war   
   about doctrine, or even serious persecution between denominations. (Except   
   maybe whether to pick up the snake by the big or little end?)   
      
   I was imagining Naph's world as having branched off at least a few   
   centuries ago,  back in the eras Lewis approved of, more or less   
   'pre-modern' by various definitions..,,   
      
      
   >Can't   
   >be helped.  "Here stand I"; or "But it does move"; same thing, really    
      
    :-)   
      
      
   Bree   
      
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