[grey_whiskers]

My post of the anti-Lewis site was to show that there are people naming themselves as Christians who earnestly believe that Lewis was a pawn of Satan, or worse, to illustrate where I think roadtest got his/her ideas...

My quote from That Hideous Strength was a confirmation of your post, not blaming Lewis.

Lewis is one of my top two or three favorite authors. (Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Tolkien, Dave Barry.)

If you think I'm anti-Lewis, you are mistaken.

Cheers!

[Mmogamer]

And don’t forget.. it was Tolkien who helped bring him in from atheism to the Light..

[Woebama]

Gotcha. Chesterton wrote that he was attracted to the occult as well. I’ve always been frightened of the occult and thought it was wierd and ridiculous, so I don’t understand the attraction. My view is that artists will always step into very serious areas with symbolism, allegory and metaphor etc. if they touch Christ and Christianity. If you look at the works of Michaelangelo or many of the Christian painters and sculptors you will see serious treatments of very controversial theological matters in symbolic terms. Lewis had the courage to take those on in a way that wasn’t wooden or dried out, without a great deal of wishy-washy explanation, but just letting a symbol be a symbol. He was intelligent but not a church leader or a theologian. He was a fiction writer and evangelist of a sort. Good at it imo.