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Listened to “Why I Am Not a Pacifist” and was disappointed by some of his reasoning, which is rare with Lewis—felt like he was relying on ad populum and strawman arguments. The first two-thirds of the argument are made on a secular level, and only toward the end does he bring Christianity into the conversation—he appeals first to the nation, then the church, THEN the words of Christ.
— May 10, 2026 12:08PM
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“Unless you take measures to prevent it, this desire [to be in the Inner Ring] is going to be one of the chief motives of your life…Any other kind of life…will be the result of conscious and continuous effort. If you do nothing about it, if you drift with the stream, you will in fact be an ‘inner ringer,’” or suffer from the (self-inflicted) anguish of exclusion.
— Sep 19, 2026 10:57AM
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“Our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner—no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ…is truly hidden.”
— Jul 12, 2026 06:57PM
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“The most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which…you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption…All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations…There are no ordinary people…It is immortals whom we joke with, work with marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.”
— Jul 12, 2026 06:56PM
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“By ceasing for a moment to consider my own ones I have begun to learn better what I really wanted.”
— Jul 12, 2026 06:35AM