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You a big smart ass, but yuh can't fool me with your so-called science, cuz I am a moron!
Don't be fooled by CS Lewis. He still said that we cannot have any morality without God. If you're still saying simplistic, preschool stuff like that, you can't be called "sensible."
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Yeah. What's with CS Lewis, anyway?
I had to endure a Christmas season as my theatre performed Lion/W/Wardrobe. The audience looooooved it so. It was such a big moneymaker for our theatre that we performed it again the next year. I have to think of it as good business.
I read the books as a child, and enjoyed them very much indeed. My mother was a big fan, as was my Grandmother. They were liberal christians.
But when I saw the play over and over again (I was a house manager, usher, Concessions manager, receptionist, executive assistant--we were very frugal but looked rich) I noticed the reality of the allegory being presented. People brush this fact off first of all. However, it only takes watching a lion be taunted in song, covered in purple robes and sacrificed, only to be resurrected and followed around by the two girls for one to understand exactly what's going on. ("No, that's no Christian story. COme on. It's just fantasy.")
The problem is not that: it's the fact that the play/book promotes the teachings of christianity in such a readers-digest manner. I read that CS Lewis intended it to be just that: a user-friendly way of promoting his beliefs to children. We sit back and think, what a great educational tool. What a great way to teach Christian morality. That's evil. If anything obfuscated the full meaning and value (antivalues) of the bible, this is it. And this is the "bible" most people believe in. The CS Lewis stories are what people think the bible is all about. In a way, CS Lewis has made a better bible. Yet the "value" of sacrifice and the beliefs in afterlife and the existence of personified evil--a "dark side" still persists. The idea that pursuing your own values will always lead you down a sinful, destructive path. That's nothing I would want my child exposed to. If I had one, I'm sure he would be exposed to that every day. But at least I could try to keep him from believing moral autonomy leads to a loss of immortality/pain and suffering of loves ones.
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