tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post285653132443194733..comments2024-03-18T11:10:18.708-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: Notes on the Christian Delusion: The Bible-bashing chaptersVictor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-13750601521212096732010-10-26T11:53:48.652-07:002010-10-26T11:53:48.652-07:00Yeah, jesus-is-savior.com is a great site. Aside f...Yeah, jesus-is-savior.com is a <em>great</em> site. Aside from the anti-Lewis stuff, a few additional articles from it include an article on why Martin Luther is evil, Obama is a communist, conspiracy theories (believing that Obama is a tool of the Illuminati), and I've seen articles promoting easy-believism, KJV Onlyism, the Rapture (okay, so I'm the minority of believers who think that's false doctrine), and the coming of a police state to America.<br /><br />Credible site? I think it's a Poe--a satirical website run by unbelievers who are parodying the worst sort of fundamentalist Christians. Like Landover Baptist Church.<br /><br />Either way, they need to hire a better web designer--quick!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-30161032542654515542010-09-21T15:08:30.338-07:002010-09-21T15:08:30.338-07:00"uite a few of the more thoughtful evangelica..."uite a few of the more thoughtful evangelicals"<br />Either PhysicistDave is being highly ironic, or needs to define "evangelical."<br /><br />Note the first site he references is to a KJV only site. Nuf said.<br /><br />The 2nd site is to a piano service man. I think he is a Fundamental Baptist, and his "against" list has just about every evangelical group in it.<br /><br />The fact that PhysicistDave didn't bother to bring this out makes one wonder how thoughtful he was when he wrote "more thoughtful."<br /><br />Just lurking by.muddleglumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01394254712209466553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-45232078985793022262010-09-20T04:01:41.068-07:002010-09-20T04:01:41.068-07:00Vic,
You said:
> C. S. Lewis is a certainly a h...Vic,<br />You said:<br />> C. S. Lewis is a certainly a highly respected figure amongst evangelicals…<br /><br />Well… actually, quite a few of the more thoughtful evangelicals see Lewis as a surreptitious pagan, if not an outright Satanist, out to destroy Christianity.<br /><br />See “C.S. Lewis Was No Christian!” :<br />http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/cs_lewis.htm (the site has lots of anti-Lewis stuff)<br /><br />or, I love this line:<br />> Clive Staples Lewis has been perhaps the single most useful tool of Satan since his appearance in the Christian community… (“C. S. Lewis: The Devil’s Wisest Fool” http://www.balaams-ass.com/journal/homemake/cslewis.htm<br /><br />A bit of Googling can find a lot more.<br /><br />I myself wish all this were true, but of course it is not.<br /><br />On the other hand, Lewis is, in my experience, by far the most popular Christian apologist amongst my fellow atheists. When the first Narnia movie was in the works, I found out about it on an atheist BBS: all the atheists were looking forward to it, and when it came out, we took our kids with a couple other atheist families to see it.<br /><br />While Lewis surely did not intend to be a tool in the arsenal of us anti-Christians, just maybe all these evangelicals are on to something. Lewis certainly does encourage a not-entirely-literal reading of Scripture, and, indeed, in places I felt he had an almost allegorical view of the Resurrection.<br /><br />So, perhaps there really is a natural progression: Lewis to Bishop Spong to Don Cupitt to Richard Dawkins. In fact, Dawkins briefly, though positively, mentioned Narnia in his book “Unweaving the Rainbow.” I have a sneaking suspicion that he may be a Lewis fan, like so many atheists.<br /><br />DavePhysicistDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11111405959451703182noreply@blogger.com