Question for DM on his sig
Religion & The OccultDiscuss Question for DM on his sig in the Debate and Discussion forums; Something I was wondering your opinion on.
Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to ...
Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him, for I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him.
-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
Ok, you most likely already know that Lewis was originally something like agnostic and then converted to christianity later on.
Now when I got to that part of the last book, where Aslan is accepting the Calormen into his paradise because of his service to Tash, it made me start wondering.
Looking at it, it appears that Lewis is trying to say that no evil work can be done unto god and no good work can be done unto the devil. Therefore, even if you serve another diety, but are still doing "god's" work then god accepts that service unto him. So technically it doesn't matter which god you worship.
Do you see it that way, and do you think that Lewis believed that way himself? I've asked a few people, but most of them were dyed in the wool baptists so my question didn't go over well.
They who understand the difference between the creation and the creator, and know the technique of liberation from the trap of Maya, with the help of knowledge, attain the Supreme. (13.34) -Bhagavad Gita
I believe that if there were an all-powerful, omniscent God that created everything, one particular set of syllables or symbols would be less important than the actual intent and quality of one's actions from God's point of view. So yes, you can call God Dutchy Von Dutchman if you like, but I would still say what is good is good and what's evil is evil regardless of the semantics used to try and confuse the two.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
No I haven't, but I never really cared that much for Lewis so it wouldn't affect me much anyway.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Nah, I just get a kick out of the irony that Lewis is the poster child for the christian religion, when many of the things he thinks goes against some of the more stricter doctrines.
But, I am a Lewis fan, so I'll probably go check out the book anyway, just to see what an opposing viewpoint has to say.
They who understand the difference between the creation and the creator, and know the technique of liberation from the trap of Maya, with the help of knowledge, attain the Supreme. (13.34) -Bhagavad Gita
I know that C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien had something to do with each other . . . one of them converted the other to Christianity, but I don't know who.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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