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Yes, I have mixed feelings about Lewis; he has some brilliant insights but he also had his issues. For example, when his friend Sheldon VanAuken's wife (and soulmate) was dying, he told VanAuken, "eternal springtime is not allowed". WTF? This was before Lewis lost his own wife whom he married late in life. And there is a creepy side to his Narnia fantasies, where the four Pevensie children stumble into an alternate world and are caught up in a civil war that they know nothing about except that somehow they are essential to Narnia's future happiness. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, they are manipulated into going on a dangerous quest with very little information about what exactly they are up against; and as for consent--that really isn't an option. They can't just say, "Not my problem" and return to the wardrobe. It must be remembered that Lewis was a professor of literature who specialized in fantasy and myth; not a scientist or a historian; and that is his weakness as an apologist.

Apr 11, 2023
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