• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    lol, I love it.

    C.S. Lewis - “I’m going to make the single most catholic fairy tale ever. This thing will be such catholic, woah, watch out, catholic comin’ out of your ears with this fairy tale.”

    The Gays: Smiling, rubbing hands together, menacingly

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        18 hours ago

        So he failed at Anglic too? Man, that’s not his year.

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          18 hours ago

          He failed at Catholic in a sense. He was an atheist who was converted by none other than the devoutly Catholic J.R.R. Tolkien who was then supremely annoyed that Lewis said, “you’re right. God exists. The Anglican flavor.”

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            12 hours ago

            I think Tolkien also wasn’t impressed with the unsubtle ASLAN = JESUS. Lewis gives the vibe of the convert that just has to do THE MOST. When you read like the Abolition of Man, you can tell he thinks of himself as a modern St Augustine.