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Maybe Not So Orthodox After All

Clive Staples Lewis has been perhaps the single most useful tool of Satan since his appearance in the Christian community sometime around World War II. With his strong belief in non-denominational Christianity, which he termed "mere Christianity", and his apparent orthodoxy in doctrine, the influence of his pen has reached across many years. When the light of God's Holy Bible is focused upon his writings, however, his heresy and outright love of Satan comes into bold focus.

Though a highly acclaimed and widely published "Christian" author, when judged by his own words with the King James Bible it becomes clear that he was indeed a fool in the most extreme sense of the word, yet a very subtle one that was and is extremely useful to his father the devil.

Thank you, [livejournal.com profile] digbydolben for this most enlightening link!
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[identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Geez, that scathing hatred was harder on my eyes than reading the AFA site, but about on par with godhatesfags.com

[identity profile] rmwilliamsjr.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
thanks for the link. it is a masterpiece of logical errors and disinformation. the only thing i could see that was true was C.S.Lewis's movement towards anglo-catholicism ....

[identity profile] nnnslogan.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ever read any Jack Chick "tracts" (mini-comics)?

[identity profile] jjostm.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Not only was the website a sample of classic bona-fide fundamentalist screed-craft, it also sensed my Anglo-Catholicism and crashed my bloody browser. And to think that these folks were bumpkins--they're able to discern one's ecclesiastical beliefs and act accordingly! Amazing!

-j

[identity profile] chipuni.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
When David Simpson was trying to create the most extreme Christians he could think of, he drew:



Thanks for letting me know they really exist!

GAH.

[identity profile] asqmh.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I really wish I had a more eloquent rebuttal at the moment, but "GAH" is really all I've got. It'd be heard the same either way.

I'd also like to add, for the record, "Oy."

One wonders if she's ever read Lewis, or merely clipped together popular soundbites?

Hi, by the way. Browsed onto your journal via [livejournal.com profile] seraphimsigrist.

Q.

[identity profile] muelos.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
What a relief. I always liked C.S. Lewis, and now I don't have to feel guilty about it.

[identity profile] kirwar4face.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Priceless! (Uh, one "Ransom" to go, please! Thanks!)

I've never done this but . . .

[identity profile] calaf.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . I've often contemplated asking my very very fundamentalist students what Bible verse says that we must take every single word of the Bible literally lest we burn in Hell for all eternity.

I need my job.

[identity profile] sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[God] said (in the Bible) that we were “gods” and He is going to make good His words. If we let Him—for we can prevent Him, if we choose—He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine.

This fairly Gnostic-sounding paragraph is based on the exegesis of Psalm 82 offered by Jesus in John 10:31-39 (http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&passage=John+10%3A31-39&version=NIV). Add to that Matthew 17:20 (http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=MATT+17:20&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on) and other similar passages. As far as I can tell therefore it is entirely in line with mainstream Christianity. I have heard several television preachers, such as Benny Hinn, make similar kinds of statements.

[identity profile] prester-scott.livejournal.com 2003-12-17 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*stunned silence*

[identity profile] joffridus.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Good Lord, deliver us.

[identity profile] fixnwrtr.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
And from such acorns blasted oaks do grow.

Once again there is war brewing in the Baptist fens. Too bad they forgot to take the beam out of their eyes when they wrote this treatise of pseudo-intellectualism.

[identity profile] mytindrum.livejournal.com 2003-12-25 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Lewis was an interesting character, though he doesn't really appeal to me the way a Tolkien or Chesterton does.

Have you read anything by Thomas Howard?

I haven't read your entire journal, but you seem to be Catholic, or at least an Anglo-Catholic who tends in that direction.
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