Also The Abolition of Man touches on that too, moral relativism is such a retarded concept. Modern leftist use "personal truth" or something else equally as retarded.
I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as a kid but i barely remember it. Most recently ive tried to read The Abolition of Man but just havent had the time to get past chapter 1. Someday though, as it is an interesting book
It's hard to pick just one, but I finished Miracles recently, and it was a surprisingly deep dive into apologetics from a philosophical standpoint. I thought that it was quite interesting.
anyone out there read "Til We Have Faces" Its his retelling of Psyche and Cupid. its great. I dont know anyone that hasn't had to read it at least twice. I finished it, loved it, and immediately started over in hopes of understanding it.
"Perhaps my harping on the word ‘kindness’ has already aroused a protest in some readers’ minds. Are we not really an increasingly cruel age? Perhaps we are: but I think we have become so in the attempt to reduce all virtues to kindness. For Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited and slothful, you have never yet done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbour’s welfare has not yet happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease. Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities are stimulated by accounts of the enemy’s atrocities; and pity for the oppressed classes, when separated from the moral law as a whole, leads by a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities of a reign of terror."
Narnia is obvious but goated for a reason. If you read these as a kid, go back and read them now. They mean so much more as an adult.
The Sci Fi trilogy is also the antidote to modern Redditism.
TIL C. S. Lewis wrote sci fi.
it's amazing! The whole trilogy is on this site by chapter or the full pdfs: https://communities.win/c/Christianity/p/17si5AAsNS/cs-lewis-space-trilogy/c
Thank you!
Cheers!
Yep, That Hideous Strength is good.
Also The Abolition of Man touches on that too, moral relativism is such a retarded concept. Modern leftist use "personal truth" or something else equally as retarded.
So far Screwtape Letters. But I've only read 3 by him.
Screwtape Letters. Have the complete Narnia series and his sci fi trilogy in my stack to read
I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as a kid but i barely remember it. Most recently ive tried to read The Abolition of Man but just havent had the time to get past chapter 1. Someday though, as it is an interesting book
Treebeard is based on him apparently
Because he takes a long time to come to the obviously correct decision?
He really liked talking.
I believe Treebeard was a villain in the early drafts.
my wife and I always keep a few extra copies of Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters on the shelf to give away.
That's so cool of you guys!
Only ever read Perelandra. I remember liking it but it was so long ago I don't even remember what it is about.
it's about a guy named Ransom going to Venus to save a lady and her planet from the devils, with guidance from God.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, though all of the Narnia books are good.
It's hard to pick just one, but I finished Miracles recently, and it was a surprisingly deep dive into apologetics from a philosophical standpoint. I thought that it was quite interesting.
The Great Divorce
https://communities.win/c/Christianity/p/141ra8g1mT/the-great-divorce-cs-lewis-chapt/c
anyone out there read "Til We Have Faces" Its his retelling of Psyche and Cupid. its great. I dont know anyone that hasn't had to read it at least twice. I finished it, loved it, and immediately started over in hopes of understanding it.
Yep, one of my favorites, it's on this site too.
my favorite quote from The Problem of Pain
"Perhaps my harping on the word ‘kindness’ has already aroused a protest in some readers’ minds. Are we not really an increasingly cruel age? Perhaps we are: but I think we have become so in the attempt to reduce all virtues to kindness. For Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited and slothful, you have never yet done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbour’s welfare has not yet happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease. Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities are stimulated by accounts of the enemy’s atrocities; and pity for the oppressed classes, when separated from the moral law as a whole, leads by a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities of a reign of terror."