Post #4027005

2026-07-23 04:39 UTC

I use that "pseudo" delicately because I don't want the fallacious nature of extremist Christians to be construed, as most milder Christians have taken it, as an excuse to say "oh they're not REAL Christians" and wash their hands of dealing with them. They SAY they have the true faith and therefore everyone else who affirms a Christian faith has (in my opinion) a moral obligation to deal sternly with right-wing Christians. I think the most damning evidence against #CSLewis must surely be found in the first book he rushed to print after his conversion and...is it known if Jack Lewis might have already been feeling out the publication angle? See what I mean, it's hard to believe that Lewis wouldn't be that crass. He just seems to have been like that, a Soapy Sam Ballard type. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 04:43

Soapy Sam from Rumpole of the Bailey never openly refers to Jack Lewis that I recall but one can be entirely certain that his entire personality and way of dealing with people was largely programmed by reading C. S. Lewis constantly and digging into the mountains of subsidiary material, for Lewis is obscenely oversold and overmarketed. Anyway that first book from #CSLewis is called The Pilgrim's Regress, it's loosely based on John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (which I've not finished but seems a far sounder work than anything of Lewis's) but it begins Lewis's discreditable habit of mining his own acquaintances for material. It's like he read Dante and decided the most important thing about The Divine Comedy was the Inferno, and the most important thing about the Inferno was Dante's rubbishing the Italian leaders he knew and despised. (cont'd)

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