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I bet he had read The Screwtape Letters though.
by db48x 4y ago
I bet he had read The Screwtape Letters though.
- hprotagonist 4y agoand, considering to whom the book was dedicated, some other famous english apologists as well.
- bsenftner 4y agoAny claimed author who's not read The Screwtape Letters has no business writing modern literature.
- noSyncCloud 4y agoThis doesn't work even as a joke.
- bsenftner 4y agoNot a joke; the Screwtape Letters is a seminal piece of literature, forget the written story, the story is the context of the novel, it's intention, it's composition, and it's ultimate weakness as a intellectual milepost. It practically destroys itself. It's a masterpiece of self deception.
- lukas099 4y agoI am intrigued. How does the book practically destroy itself?
- noSyncCloud 4y agoIt doesn't destroy anything lol, it's just bog-standard, annoying, heavy-handed, Western Christian cringe thinly describing itself as apologetics. It's annoying as fuck when people pretend it's literature or something.
- beefield 4y agoI need to check, are you sarcastic? I have so far avoided Lewis due to an impression (way too old impression to remember where I got it, may be unfounded or not) of the texts being close to christian/religious zealotry?
- protonbob 4y agoI mean he was a Christian and he did believe strongly in it and tried to share his beliefs with others. I'm not sure if I would call that zealotry though.
- Loughla 4y agoI'm not trying to guess why you would say that (and by that, I mean the fact that you would avoid writing because it's trying to preach to you), and I do want to say that Lewis is, overall, very close to proselytizing in his writings (generally it's pretty explicitly stated that's what he wants to do). But. Avoiding something because it disagrees with your worldview, or because it is 'too close to [insert literally anything here]' is not a great way to expand your understanding of the world. Being exposed to things you disagree with is step 1 in understanding how or why they exist, with few exceptions (CP, explicit hate speech, most calls to violence, those sorts of things). Read the screwtape letters. Yes, they're intended to make you consider your immortal soul and embrace Christianity. But also yes, it's an amazing piece of literature.
- beefield 4y agoWell, I consider myself being relatively open to all kinds of new ideas. But at some point you need to realize that certain genre is not going to give you any new insights and it's better to move on. For example, I have read total of three books published by CATO Institute, and and by standard Bayesian rules, it is going to take a lot of convincing to give them one more chance.
- failrate 4y agoThen read 3 CS Lewis books starting with Screwtape and see if this is true for that as well. Quite slim books, top.
- elihu 4y agoThere are too many good books in the world for having read them all to be any kind of a reasonably attainable barrier to entry for authors.
- vanderZwan 4y agoI was wondering if they were the first to comment on this, or if this is a problem that has been satirized for much longer! :)