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I love CS Lewis. I don’t massively love his name being invoked by a bunch of people intent on ripping the chest out of America.
by moomin 4mo ago
I love CS Lewis. I don’t massively love his name being invoked by a bunch of people intent on ripping the chest out of America.
- jfengel 4mo agoI don't especially love Lewis. His fiction is fine, but I find his theology badly overrated. At best it's pop theology, not scholarly, and even even as pop theology I find it shallow. Ironically, I find his friend Tolkien's Catholic theology more thoughtfully expressed in fiction that Lewis' is in nonfiction.
- nephihaha 4mo agoLewis had very little to do with that. He was a Protestant Irishman who found a home in England. His main connection to the USA is his wife who was from a very left wing background when she was younger, pretty much Communist in fact. I don't think Lewis would have had much truck with either of the two main political currents in the States. He was conservative (small "c") himself but not in much like the American sense.