Author Topic: C S Lewis (Read 2251 times)

roscoe · « **on:** November 26, 2008, 02:57:49 PM »

Does anyone know anything about this writer? I tried reading a book of his a few yrs ago and felt like I was reading Hunter S Thompson-- I had no idea what he was talking about. Is he suppose to be a Catholic?

MaterDominici · « **Reply #1 on:** November 26, 2008, 03:53:04 PM »

In addition to writing children's books, he was a Christian apologist. I know he was a friend of Tolkien, but I don't think he was Catholic--Anglican perhaps.

I've read his Mere Christianity which wasn't written as a book, but rather was a series of radio broadcasts which was later edited into book form. He certainly doesn't claim any specific form of Christianity in that book.

I think I made it about half way through Screwtape Letters which is a series of letters written between devils detailing the progress being made in capturing souls for Satan. A quick, easy read eventhough I didn't bother finishing it.

marasmius · « **Reply #2 on:** November 26, 2008, 04:20:18 PM »

trent13 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 26, 2008, 08:34:45 PM »

I had heard that he converted on his death bed to Catholicism but so far as I know he is regarded as a Christian apologist as MD stated.

Raoul76 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2009, 02:23:58 AM »

Just because his book was reviewed by a Fabian socialist doesn't mean anything. That Hideous Strength is a cool book. It reminds me of "Halloween III: Season of the Witch," a movie that shows how technology is pagan, Celtic magic on a grand scale.

Just remember that "pagan" or "Celtic" is a euphemism for "Jєωιѕн." But Jєωs are pagan now, and have been ever since they rejected Christ. The idea that they have a "religion" is hogwash. They are abandoned to sin and fleshly pleasure and money.

If you want to question C.S. Lewis' Catholicism -- and this is very easy to do -- check out another book in the "Space Trilogy" called Perelandra, I believe. It's some bizarre, baroque fantasy about a man stranded on a planet where there are only two life-forms, himself and some alien chick who turns into a surfboard and takes him riding up and down on big purple waves ( or something like that, I don't remember all the details ). It's like a porny sci-fi Adam and Eve fantasy. Really lame.

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #5 on:** June 24, 2009, 04:27:14 AM »

He gravitated HEAVILY toward the Faith as the years went by, but remained outside of the fold because he was in love with a divorcee from the USA.

kittycat496 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 24, 2009, 07:47:45 AM »

Quote from: Raoul76

Just remember that "pagan" or "Celtic" is a euphemism for "Jєωιѕн." But Jєωs are pagan now, and have been ever since they rejected Christ. The idea that they have a "religion" is hogwash. They are abandoned to sin and fleshly pleasure and money.

Hey hold the phone. I thought this thread was about the writings of C.S. Lewis the guy who wrote Narnia, not about being anti-Jєωιѕн. The Jєωιѕн people have a religion and a history that is even longer then ours. We even have their holy book included in ours. We have no right to say that their religion is not real any more then they have a right to bash ours.

Besides there are two things to remember when bashing the poor Jєωιѕн people (who BTW historically speaking have probably the worst luck ever when it comes to get persecuted). First of all if Jesus walked the earth today would the U.S. (you know the one with God we trust on the money) have acted any more favorably to him then the Romans did? The second thing to remember is Jesus was Jєωιѕн and even on the night before he died he celebrated his religion in the feast of the passover.

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #7 on:** June 24, 2009, 08:07:05 AM »

Quote from: kittycat496

The Jєωιѕн people have a religion and a history that is even longer then ours. We even have their holy book included in ours. We have no right to say that their religion is not real any more then they have a right to bash ours.

Judaism has little to nothing in common with the OT religion of the Israelites. It is, in fact, the nullification thereof.

Jesus celebrated the OT rites because the OT was STILL VALID. Clinging to such 2000 years after the train has left the station is hardly laudable. As an important aside, the beliefs and practices of Judaism bear NO RESEMBLANCE to the beliefs and practices of OT Jєωs.

They have been persecuted because they FAILED to live up to their God-given vocation. It is like the mess that a man becomes when he fails to answer the call to become a priest. If he repents and returns to the appointed road, he will be fine. If not, NOTHING will EVER work.

spouse of Jesus · « **Reply #8 on:** June 24, 2009, 08:51:37 AM »

About mere chrisrianity... I red (past tense of read?) on the web. It was a section about pride. Lewis believed that it is still the vice of pride when you don't commit sin because you think it is below your diginity, to sin.
However the catholic church has always told her children to be mindful of their dignity and not to defile it with any sin.
I saw this in a catholic book:" there is a pride falsely called so, when one avoids what is base. It is a laudable thing."

spouse of Jesus · « **Reply #9 on:** June 24, 2009, 08:57:37 AM »

Quote from: gladius_veritatis

Quote from: kittycat496
The Jєωιѕн people have a religion and a history that is even longer then ours. We even have their holy book included in ours. We have no right to say that their religion is not real any more then they have a right to bash ours.

Judaism has little to nothing in common with the OT religion of the Israelites. It is, in fact, the nullification thereof.

Jesus celebrated the OT rites because the OT was STILL VALID. Clinging to such 2000 years after the train has left the station is hardly laudable. As an important aside, the beliefs and practices of Judaism bear NO RESEMBLANCE to the beliefs and practices of OT Jєωs.

They have been persecuted because they FAILED to live up to their God-given vocation. It is like the mess that a man becomes when he fails to answer the call to become a priest. If he repents and returns to the appointed road, he will be fine. If not, NOTHING will EVER work.

Judaism of OT was a shadow of what was to come. A shadow, not reality itself. "first the shadow came, then the reality".But Jєωs rejected God's covenant. Read the Gosple's parable about some cruel gardeners who kill the son of the owner of the garden. It says that He (God)will take the garden (covenant) from them (the Jєωs) and give it to others.

Dawn · « **Reply #10 on:** June 24, 2009, 09:13:44 AM »

The "Jєωs" of today are the persecutors. Not the persecuted. Take a look at a baby whose skin is burned by the white phosphourus thrown on the people of Palestine.

clare · « **Reply #11 on:** June 24, 2009, 09:38:03 AM »

Read The Screwtape Letters. It's great.

Raoul76 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 24, 2009, 12:21:56 PM »

That poor girl apparently doesn't know what kind of website she stumbled onto... :scratchchin:

I shouldn't have brought this up in a CS Lewis thread that I dug up out of the archives but -- yeah, what everyone else said.

I call the Jєωs totally abandoned, in the way a woman is abandoned who leaves her husband and children and becomes a nymphomaniac. They rejected God, who chose them among all the nations, over and over and over. When they crucified His son, the lights went out in their minds ( with exceptions like St. Paul ). "Weep not for me, daughter of Jerusalem, weep for yourself and your children."

Today they wallow in evil. When you see rabbis and temples and you think that they are "religious" remember it is all for show. Hollywood, the Federal Reserve, the Rothschild bank, the robber-state of Israel are their temples.

Back to CS Lewis, the Narnia books to me are like the Harry Potter of their time with more Christian symbology. There are very few authors of novels that can be trusted, that seem like real Catholics. I know because at one point I wanted to be a Catholic filmmaker and was lured by "Catholic" directors like Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Rohmer or Michaelangelo Antonioni ( I could go on ) and "Catholic" novelists like R.A. Lafferty until I realized these are all gnostic false prophets who had filled my head with junk. It took me a long time to reprogram myself. ( Now I feel that film is actually incompatible with Catholicism, hence the inner torment of Mr. Mel Gibson. )

I get that same feeling from Lewis though I was never a fan -- that he was a gnostic at heart.

roscoe · « **Reply #13 on:** June 24, 2009, 01:30:38 PM »

Quote from: kittycat496

Quote from: Raoul76
Just remember that "pagan" or "Celtic" is a euphemism for "Jєωιѕн." But Jєωs are pagan now, and have been ever since they rejected Christ. The idea that they have a "religion" is hogwash. They are abandoned to sin and fleshly pleasure and money.

Hey hold the phone. I thought this thread was about the writings of C.S. Lewis the guy who wrote Narnia, not about being anti-Jєωιѕн. The Jєωιѕн people have a religion and a history that is even longer then ours. We even have their holy book included in ours. We have no right to say that their religion is not real any more then they have a right to bash ours.

Besides there are two things to remember when bashing the poor Jєωιѕн people (who BTW historically speaking have probably the worst luck ever when it comes to get persecuted). First of all if Jesus walked the earth today would the U.S. (you know the one with God we trust on the money) have acted any more favorably to him then the Romans did? The second thing to remember is Jesus was Jєωιѕн and even on the night before he died he celebrated his religion in the feast of the passover.

I think kittycat496 properly belongs at judaicinfo.com

Dawn · « **Reply #14 on:** June 24, 2009, 04:27:29 PM »

Hmm, I thought Catholic Answers, but I guess it is the same.
With all of their "Converts from Judaism."