XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: bree@bree.com   
      
   On 6 Oct 2005 09:15:14 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
      
   >Bree wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Sorry, I overlooked that. As many as you want, so long as the conditions of   
   >Mere X are met when you arrive there. I think some Mere X worlds would   
   >mutate within the lifetime of a new arrival; others would be stable.   
      
      
   Ok. Appearantly you're looking at some version of an MC world where   
   religious wars between denominations would be psycologically and   
   politically possible in the future -- or you wouldn't have posed the   
   original question.   
      
   So, what other assumptions about that particular MC world would have to be   
   true to make such a war possible? I'm sure you don't mean that a world   
   otherwise like ours, that branched off sometime after the pub date of MC   
   (soon after 1945 let's say), would now have the US and Russia or China   
   getting atomic missiles ready over the same sort of theological-language   
   issues that the RCs and the Protestants really did use armies on.   
      
   Tho come to think of it, that's  not too far out, aside from the atomics.   
   There are real motiives for realpolitik countries to have some more wars,   
   which might be sold to the masses on points of doctrine, if that was what   
   (in your world) the masses were interested in. Or might be sincerely held   
   by the leaders -- who have other reasons for going to that war.   
      
   If you want a world where in Smallville, USA, the Presbyterians are likely   
   to start shooting the Methodists -- I don't think I could believe that. :-)   
   It would take a lot of really wild SF premises; it wouldn't be our world at   
   all.  To try to figure what it would take, and how many decades, to go from   
   out 1945 to such a future -- is your job. :-) But I don't think simply   
   everyone accepting MC would do it -- more likely, as D says?, MC would work   
   against such a development.   
      
      
   Bree   
      
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