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Mar. 10th, 2005 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfCatching up on the Bloglines list. (RSS is God, I swear. It's beautiful.) Found these two things, curiously juxtaposed:
Maryland teen protests the saying of the pledge of alleigance in foreign languages.
Hatred is a poison, a long discussion based on a C.S. Lewis passage from Mere Christianity:
"The real test is this. Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils."
Aslan may have been a very poorly disguised allegorical figure and Father Christmas never should have been in Narnia along with the talking beavers, but the man really could write.
Maryland teen protests the saying of the pledge of alleigance in foreign languages.
Hatred is a poison, a long discussion based on a C.S. Lewis passage from Mere Christianity:
"The real test is this. Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils."
Aslan may have been a very poorly disguised allegorical figure and Father Christmas never should have been in Narnia along with the talking beavers, but the man really could write.
