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A Muslim coworker once told me many believe the Christian apologist CS Lewis was showing an anti-Muslim bias in using Turkish Delight as the temptation ... supp
by nwatson 11y ago
A Muslim coworker once told me many believe the Christian apologist CS Lewis was showing an anti-Muslim bias in using Turkish Delight as the temptation ... supposedly it is a warning against the enticements of a non-Christian world view. Does anyone have more info on this angle?
- taberiand 11y agoConsidering The Last Battle, it passes the sniff test
- russnewcomer 11y agoIt's almost assuredly a splitting of hairs, but having read a decent amount of Lewis, and knowing a bit about the times and places he lived in, I think Lewis would admit to having a conscious bias against Islam, but not a conscious one against Muslims. (A bias against the belief system, not against the people that practice it) His use of Turkish Delight is, I have heard, thought of as a personal thing, that Lewis as a young boy would have been mightily tempted by Turkish Delight. Knowing also the yelling that goes back and forth between Christians and Muslims about bits and bobs in the other's corpus of literature and culture, I'd imagine that it is as much planned anti-Muslim bias as unintentional.