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   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > And possibly have been. But what has that to do with your wardrobe   
   > land?   
      
   I thought it would be obvious. M.C. does not support or oppose freedom of   
   speech and conscience. It is silent again, while remaining eloquent on   
   whether Christ's miracles literally happened.   
      
   >>> 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?   
   >   
   > As real as discussing your imaginary land beyond the wardrobes, and in   
   > fact more real, because it's based on Lewis's own idea of "mere   
   > Christianity", and not ideas of "mere Christianity" that others may   
   > attribute to him.   
      
   But the discussion of G.D. would again be conducted by interpreters of   
   Lewis, not Lewis himself. No-one's told me yet whether they think M.C.   
   dove underground with Constantine and re-emerged with the Quakers. And   
   was St Paul a M.C.?   
      
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