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2026-07-23 04:31 UTC

Plainly their experience of salvation...which probably isn't actually true salvation in any sense, let's put it that way...changes their personality completely. They become bivalent in a curious way too disquieting to get into right now. The worrying thing is that #CSLewis, who should have known better, seems to have undergone quite this sort of false conversion. That's roughly what I think "born again" Christians are, they are Christians who think they experienced Jesus somehow but didn't and now they're locked into a peculiar semi-delusion. I assert that traces of this are scattered throughout Lewis's writing. His own career suggests it: he "converts" and instantly he's like all the other "evangelicals", acting as if he's the Second Coming--of St. Paul. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 04:35

Much about hardline Christianity resembles a cult of St. Paul far more than any sort of cult of Jesus. It's not that Jesus isn't important to them but he's trivial to them, a solved problem, reduced to a magazine cover or a plastic Buddy Jesus doll. They put far more energy into mining Saul of Tarsus's questionable literary output for weapons. St. Paul himself was like that. He was like them, like Billy Graham and Pete Hegseth and Clive Staples Lewis: a careerist "Christian", a fellow who seemed to regard the Incarnation chiefly as good managerial advice and an excuse to boss people around. #CSLewis must have fallen for that style of Christianity, or pseudo-Christianity. (cont'd)

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