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IrishAyes

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2. I've always been a huge CS Lewis fan,
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 08:02 PM
Nov 2013

especially of Mere Christianity (wherein he says some form of socialism is necessary for Christian living) and of course the Screwtape Letters. Another favorite, The Great Divorce.

I also think it's neat he married an avowed Communist, which most fundies don't seem to know and deny if I tell them, because they like to co-opt Lewis for their own purposes much as they're trying to latch onto JFK after a suitable waiting period. Most of them hated JFK when he was alive, and they'd turn on Lewis just as quickly if they ever read his entire body of work carefully.

Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley's brother Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2013 #1
I've always been a huge CS Lewis fan, IrishAyes Nov 2013 #2
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