"Hi all I hired out a CS Lewis book from the library today called "Mere Christianity" and I was wondering if any of you had read it and what the general view of CS Lewis was before I expose my mind to what he has to say. I don't want to read it if it's going to be detrimental to my mind!! "
Because you know, it's dangerous to think for yourself without others giving you preconceptions...
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Are you sure your mind hasn't already been exposed? Like, say, to a blast of radiation? You haven't been cooking your food with a doorless microwave, have you?
The original post on that thread does not seem to include the final sentence (it's dangerous to think...) !
And fundies absolutely loath CS Lewis, who implied that non-Christians *might* possibly be forgiven by God because they were so darn good even without Jesus. As if anyone who wasn't a Christian didn't greatly deserve to be tortured forever and ever! Reading CS Lewis can be a dangerous act, better stick to the bible.
Oh noes, CS Lewis believed in evolution, better not read him!
Personally I have great respect for Lewis; he wasn't a fundie, unlike the fools at RR.
And I think the "Because you know, it's dangerous to think for yourself without others giving you preconceptions..."
I don't think this is a Poe.
Since the person is so scared of the title, but checked the book out anyway, it is safe to say that they know who CS Lewis is at least.
"Last sentence makes me 99% certain this is poe."
If you are talking about this part:
That isn't in the actual quote.
Take a look at here:
http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/homemake/cslewis.htm
I just recently posted a juicy, selected quote about C. S. Lewis from there but it doesn't seem to have passed the muster for some reason, probably due to having been mistaken for a Poe because someone might have thought it too "good" to be true.
The people behind Blessed Quietness are NOT Poes as far as I've been able to discern. (Or else) They are however fundier than even the Rapture Ready crowd. Even C. S. Lewis isn't acceptable for them.
(Really, I've known a girl in real life whose parents had taught her "containing fictional magic" = "evil promotion of witchcraft" and yes Narnia also fell into that.)
You're a sad person indeed if you need Rapture Ready to screen your Christian literature for you.
CS Lewis' stories are pretty good, though. You'll enjoy it if you can work out the symbolism and not take it all literally.
Not Poe. The last line of the quote doesn't appear in the original post. It looks like it was meant as commentary by the submitter. Nobody who would make a comment like that would be a member of RR for long, Admitting something like that would get you banned in short order.
Regardless commentary on submitted quotes should, at the very least, be put in [](brackets) or (even better) put on the comments page for the quote, since that is what the comments page is for.
Adding commentary to quotes in such a way as to make them undistiguishable from the quote itself, is exactly the kind of thing that people can point to when places like RR claim that FSTDT submitters alter the quotes that they take from other forums.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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