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MERE CHRISTIANITY by C.S. Lewis

You are suggesting  bro seekshidayath to read Lewis' book Mere Christianity a sort of for you his asking you read Prophet Muhammad(pbuh)�s biography!

Br. S�h may respond in his own time but I would like to add my two cents on  the subject as far my memories will assist me in my golden years!

It seems you are equating Lewis by default in the same category as Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

Lewis  may be an example of a great scholar and intellectual of his time who also left his faith to be an atheist and later converted to Christianity under the influence of his friend fantasy writer J R Tolkien and his disappointment to Anglicanism rather Tolkien�s Roman Catholicism!. And the influence of Lewis�s other fiction books created more fiction writers likes of J K Rowling of Harry Potter fame etc And I know our fundamentalist Christian neighbor expressly banned her kids from the Harry Potter readings! I wouldn�t know why! LOL

I am not into fiction and or fantasy writers but my kids are crazy about The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter stuff for their age!

About the time period of history of Lewis�s lectures when the Brit�s- the Anglicans were at Germans- the Lutherans and Catholics were at each other�s throats the jury is still out! My first perusal many years ago didn�t leave any convincing validity of Christian beliefs due to his Trilemma!

For the starters Lewis concludes the "Preface" by saying that he sees Christianity as a great house with a large hall. Different rooms leading off the hall are the different denominations. He said that he is not primarily concerned about which room Christians occupy, but he is concerned about getting them into the hall.

Lewis might have been speaking and writing to the people in the rooms, and possibly even to those in the hall more like preaching to the choir, but if you really think the time frame of the book the Brits had a occupied(colonized) a good portion of the known world  and Hitler wanted to get his hands on those lands! The inhabitants of that were people with one main divine religion of Islam!

The way things turned out Hitler lost in his attempt for the reasons not to be discussed here but the hall and the room where Anglican entered seems they made a wrong choice and want to get out of the house. In the UK weekly church attendance has dropped below a million, and worldwide the church has been bitterly divided over the issues of homosexuality and the ordination of women priests. I find no convincing reasons to move into the hall from outside the house when I could see the moral decline of the house�s neighborhood!.

I think, because most of his readers are Christians who buy the book because they are looking for substantiation. They are not searchers of truth. Any writer can capture a sympathetic audience by capitalizing on those areas that everyone " presume " to be right.

History is filled with examples of what Christians  "morality" has done to worsen our lot. Whole cities can be gleefully exterminated in their God's name. Why else were the Christian-dominated centuries called the "Dark" Ages?

For the sake of discussion relevancy here I would get to the chapter of

CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE:

 QUOTE�A great many people seem to think that if you area Christian yourself you should try to make divorce difficult for every one. I do not think that. At least I know I should be very angry if the Mohammedans tried to prevent the rest of us from drinking wine.�

In the above quoted passage it indicates how ignorant Lewis is to call Muslims as Mohammedans which is obvious that his mentality is colonialist or orientalist and outdated for a discussion amongst the true followers of divine religions! It is an insult to a true Muslim it that simple! The British colonialists had an agenda to destroy Islam and degrade Muslims in their understanding of sacred traditions! In this they made all the attempts to trivialize the name of Muhammad(pbuh) and assisted their agents to malign the Prophet- the knighting of Rushdie comes to mind! What they preached in the colonies that Muhammad(pbuh) created this religion on his own with no link to Abrahamic traditions!

All of their attempts have backfired upon them; people are finally waking up from the slumber and want their pristine Islam and the Brits are back attacking the Muslims whether it is Afghanistan or Iraq or Pakistan next, the ME is under their neo colonial grips along with the new Israelites!

�         �My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British  people are  not Christians  and,  therefore,  cannot be expected to live Christian livesThere ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the  Church with rules enforced by her  on her own members. The distinction  ought to be quite sharp,  so that  a man knows which  couples are married in a Christian sense and which are not�

He forgot to add just shacking up!

The Anglican are reverting to Islam in UK willingly tired of their corrupt and immoral drunken lives! particularly the  women folks, you wonder why?

Pay special attention on the red highlighted here and I would like to see what you come up with your understanding!!!)

�Before leaving the question  of divorce, I  should  like to distinguish two things which  are  very often  confused.  The  Christian conception  of marriage  is  one:  the  other  is  the  quite  different  question-now  far Christians,  if  they  are  voters or Members of Parliament, ought to try to force their views of marriage on the rest of the community by embodying them in the  divorce laws.�

When I read the narrative of the section Christian Marriage, I just laughed what was Lewis smoking----Couldn�t he see what was written on the wall and coming down the pike! about the state of marriage in Europe and for that matter even in the states side!

I think quid pro quo  Lewis for Prophet(pbuh) bio is comparing apple with orange!

Let's be honest how  would you justify you marrying  a  "Muhammadan" in which category will fit your scenario in?