Going after C.S. Lewis
Via the World Magazine Blog, The Times of London has a simultaneously silly and nasty piece going after C.S. Lewis in anticipation of the Narnia movie (29 days and counting). It’s silly because of what it assumes about American Christians who admire his writings and nasty because… well because it is nasty:
As a youth Lewis revelled in vivid and cruel fantasies. He also loved bawdy songs and ancient poetry bordering on the pornographic. As an adult he had sex with at least one woman. Nonetheless, the evangelists who collect his furniture and place it in glass cases — and the Lewis societies that work hard to project a fabricated image of the writer in England and elsewhere — have tried to remould him as a “perpetual virginâ€.
Really? That’s a new one on me. My favorite comment at World was this:
People on the left find it hard to forgive intellectuals or any leaders who have made the journey from secularism to serious religion; Consequently they love to dig up dirt and write muckraking articles about them.
Lewis, himself, was well aware of his own faults and propensity to sin; however he became a quite devout Christian and his books on Christianity will most likely remain classics for millennia.
How true. There’s no judgment as harsh, unforgiving, and hypocritical as that of a libertine who catches a traditionalist being human.
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