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Apr 16, 2008 16:16

"Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it: the Christian rule is, 'Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner or else total abstinence.' Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has ( Read more... )

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sam_mahool April 17 2008, 03:20:26 UTC
Someone in my English class senior year gave me that book after we argued at length over why Christianity doesn't work. She thought it might shine some light on my obviously dim outlook. Biiiiitch.

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asoggybiscuit42 April 17 2008, 15:16:16 UTC
fuck c.s. lewis

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suckerpuncher17 April 17 2008, 17:36:33 UTC
i think its ludicrous of c.s. lewis to claim the extreme that either christianity or our instincts are wrong. that really doesnt make any sense at all. I think that "chastity" is supposed to be difficult, thats perhaps part of the point, and i dont think our sexual instict "as it is now" is much different than it was at any other point in history.

also. i hate the lion the witch and the wardrobe.

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