[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Can't stand C.S. Lewis as a fiction writer. I had heard about his stuff for years, so finally read one of his fiction books (for adults, not the Narnia series). It was dated, but I found it readable ... until I got to the end, where it was revealed that the heroine of the book had made a huge mistake years before by actually using birth control in her relationship with her husband, which resulted in the person who was supposed to be born to save Mankind not being born! Ick. I mean, really ... no birth control at all? Only a small segment of the population goes for that now. Very dated attitude. Charles Miller is a far superior Christian fantasist. He was a friend of Lewis's but his fiction has stood up better to the test of time.

[Mr. Silverback]

I've never read his fiction, though I did see the film version of Wardrobe. Forget the fiction, it's the non-fiction that is truly brilliant, and life-changing, and I lump the "fiction" work The Screwtape Letters in with his non-fiction. Start with Mere Christianity, you won't regret it.

[Valin]

so finally read one of his fiction books

Which one? (just out of curiosity)
If I may I'd suggest "That Hidious Strength"

[Theophilus]

Ick. I mean, really ... no birth control at all? Only a small segment of the population goes for that now. Very dated attitude.

Perhaps small, but literally growing, because we "go for" growing!

"Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"

Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest

Now is the time that face should form another;

Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,

Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.

For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb

Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?

Or who is he so fond will be the tomb

Of his self-love, to stop posterity?

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee

Calls back the lovely April of her prime:

So thou through windows of thine age shall see

Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.

But if thou live, remember'd not to be,

Die single, and thine image dies with thee.

[monday]

"I mean, really ... no birth control at all? Only a small segment of the population goes for that now."

The most valuable resource in the universe is the human mind. Without the human mind to manipulate the other resources into order, they are all worthless.

Incalculable value has been lost to the universe, and the human race, from disease, war, accidents, old age, and abortion.

It is a fact that all of us, would be richer, healthier, and potentially wiser, if not for those deaths, the absence of all those minds.

[grassboots.org]

I might be missing the irony here, but join me in the list of that small segment of the population. Dated, but correct? What does the date of the opinion have to do with whether something is true or not? Did science discover that children are suddenly unwanted?

[Aquinasfan]

I mean, really ... no birth control at all?

Name another "medicine" the primary purpose of which is to prevent the body's proper operation. "Birth control" is simply a euphemism for sterility-inducing poison.

[hopespringseternal]

Ick. I mean, really ... no birth control at all? Only a small segment of the population goes for that now. Very dated attitude.

Truth has no expiration date, nor is it dependent on majority approval.

Birth control is popular because people believe they should be able to spend their lives the way they want, and in doing so they do a lot of damage to the one or two kids they do have.

[johnb838]

Just shows how low we've fallen when we go from arguing about birth control to whether partial birth abortion ought to be illegal. Also demonstrates the truth of the slippery slope argument, which is why I've become something of a staunch conservative, paleo in some ways. Abortion at any time should be illegal because it has been proven that people can't handle the power. It leads to widespread infanticide, and that's genocide by another name.

[steve-b]

Yes, Lewis does fall into the trap of Randian-style didacticism at times.