[betty boop]

What should they find incredible, since they believed no longer in a rational universe? What should they regard as too obscene, since they held that all morality was a mere subjective by-product of the physical and economic situations of men? The time was ripe. From the point of view which is accepted in Hell, the whole history of our Earth had led up to this moment. There was now at last a real chance for Fallen Man to shake off that limitation of his powers which mercy had imposed upon him as a protection from the full results of his fall. If this succeeded, Hell would be at last incarnate.

May God ever bless C. S. Lewis, so beloved to me as the exemplification of Christian Realism, as evident in his writings, in his quiet yet profoundly efficacious evangelism....

Thank you so very much, grey_whiskers, for letting Lewis speak to us again, through your post.

To me, the man is blessed, now and always.

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed, C.S. Lewis is blessed and a blessing to us.

Thank you so much, dear grey_whiskers, for bringing the excerpt to this thread!

[Quix]

I agree with both of you.

However, there’s a stray puzzle piece in my mental archives . . .

someone’s trip to Heaven included a dialogue with a famous Christian writer—I took it to mean C.S. Lewis though the Heaven visitor refused to say who it was. It seemed to me that their description MOST PROBABLY only fit Lewis. It is conceivable it was someone else, however.

Anyway—whoever it was—considered all their writings as dross, chaff, grossly inadequate for the cause of the Gospel. And, they were reportedly in the lower ranks of Heaven for whatever reason(s).

I remember reading that and being rather stunned at the time. An interesting mystery anyway.