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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The funny thing is we can blame Tolkien for that. It was Tolkien who got Lewis to convert, though he became a protestant while Tolkien was a Catholic, and hilariously Tolkien found Lewis' use of Christian symbolism too overdone and lacking in subtlety.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it was Tolkien who got Lewis to convert

Well, pobody's nerfect ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm just very tickled at how much it backfired - Lewis turned outright anti-Catholic. If I'd been a religious man I might have tried to read something into that (but I'm not, so).