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Very interesting aspect of what friendship and love should be. What caught my eye was the Lewis statement: mixing truth w/a lie makes the lie much stronger. The great deceiver is a master of telling us a lie just enough to make our truth worse.
Interesting. One principle of reparative therapy for homosexuals who want to change their ways is to enable them to forge a strong non-erotic same sex friendship. As Lewis insightfully observes, this is not a part of the homosexual life.
This reminds me of the entire way the culture has become so twisted, automatically and bizarrely reading sleaze into what was once everyday normalcy. I’ve shown old movies, old magazines, and all sorts of vintage material to folks nowadays, and they have an almost kneejerk reaction of reading some perverse sexual innuendo into absolutely everything. And I mean everything. Sometimes jokingly, sometimes not. Always a twisted subtext ready to be applied, to the most mundane and innocuous material.
It’s all rather warped. But it seems like modern culture has really cultivated this in recent years.
Love has been perverted by perverts.
Ask someone if they can truly love someone without having any sexual desire for them.
Then ask them if they love their grandparents and their dog.
Pro-homosexual cultures make men see other men as sex objects. It destroys trust and creates an atmosphere of awkwardness—as all situations where people have no Virtue do.
Boys are especially attractive to homosexuals since it is the age they are fixated sexually in-—an immature age of lust without commitment —inability to form mature, long-lasting relationships. It is why they are promiscuous—it is immaturity and lack of self-mastery. It is really a very sick, immature lifestyle that puts selfish lust above all other things. True maturity takes selflessness. Homosexuals never have it unless they revile their own actions.
C.S. Lewis was himself a great friend. If anyone’s writing on the subject of platonic friendships could be trusted it would be his. Lewis had a friend who died in WW I. For the rest of her life Lewis housed and patiently cared for that friend’s mother. It was a deal the friends had made with one another and Jack stuck it out loyally. He had strong friendships with every one of the Inklings and was able to relate to each individually as well as to each within the context of the group. He was a great friend to and of his older brother who survived him; they lived together for decades. His friendship with Joy Davidman began as a pen-pal relationship and only years later blossomed into marriage. We all should be so lucky as to have a friend of the sort that C.S. Lewis was, and we would all do well to seek to emulate him.
Thanks for this post.
“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object present to your senses.” – C.S. Lewis
talking about C.S...
C.S. was Roman Catholic in his heart and at present, He
is now fully Roman Catholic.
Belief in the Holy Eucharist is the way to go. Believe, then all misunderstandings about the faith will fall away, the Real Presence is the pinnacle.
The Bible speaks of “thy friend, which is as thine own soul” (Deuteronomy 13:6).
Now way this isn't intentional, and intended to destroy our fighting forces.
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I remember reading part of St. Augustine’s confessions where he said that he realized that homosexuality had been wrong because it was an unfair (maybe not the right word) burden or destroyer of friendships. A “friendship with benefits” was not a real friendship. There was a selfishness, an aspect of using someone and contaminating the bond.
I suppose C.S. Lewis read that and reflected further.