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What C.S. Lewis thought about Mormons

C. S. Lewis, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Zane Grey all seemed to find a way to dig on the church. Can anyone think of big name novelists that gave us a break?

The Mormon-C.S.Lewis obsession is ridiculous. It assumes that no one else in the world ono a large scale shares values similar to the LDS culture, and because there are some shared values with Lewis, LDS folks claim a special connection. The reality is that the wider world, outside LDS culture, does in fact share values. LDS folks are not as unique as they like to think. This is not to denigrate the LDS culture, just to point out the strengths of the rest of humanity. For example, my closest friend is Jewish, and is more of a "Christian" than most of my fellow Utah Mormons.

"The Screwtape Letters" was one of the few non-scriptural books approved for us by my mission President. An excellent read.

C.S. Lewis is overrated.

There I said it.

Hey Anonymous,

Your thoughts are deep, you really understand the LDS culture. So nice of you to anonymously put us all in our places and show us what the world is really like. Because, you know for sure that NONE of us has ever left Utah or met anyone not of our faith.

Your the best man! Write a book and get a following and by all means, keep the hate mail coming, nothing shows Christians how wrong they are like posting it on a public forum anonymously.

Thanks for the shots of reality man! I guess when I read books about CS Lewis I shouldn't try to draw similarities... You are SO right on this one!! Good thing for us you have nothing better to do than read these articles and post your negative anonymous thoughts.

It goes with the territory.

Tolstoy liked us. I recall reading about it in 'A Marvelous Work and a Wonder' by Legrand Richards,

I love CS Lewis. He probably didn't like Mormons as evidenced in "The Magician's Nephew" when he mocks the neighbors who don't drink coffee and wear funny underclothing. Clearly though, he had an enlightened mind.

saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God ,Acts 7.
CS Lewis "I allow,indeed I insist, that Christ cannot be "the right hand of God" except in a metaphorical sense. I allow and insist that the External Word,the Second Person of the Trinity,can never be,nor have been,confined to any place at all: it is rather Him that all places exist.
CS Lewis MIRACLES,353

I don't if its just my narrow view but it seems to me that the recent Prophets have quoted CS Lewis quite often. Which makes me wonder why the Bishop of our ward cringes when someone references Star Wars or Lord of the Rings in sacrament meeting.

Well, old RAMPER, some of us just plainly don't like some of you Mormons. Some of you guys and gods out there have a perfect way of driving others FAR, FAR, AWAY with your sassy, grumpy, pompous, holier than thou attitudes. Otherwise though try and be happy and have a spiffy spectacular day with goodness all around you. Put a "genuine" smile on your faces.

I like CS Lewis. He had away with words.

Joseph Smith taught matter is eternal,and has not been,nor can be created. CS Lewis on Creation"I take it to mean'to cause to be, without pre-existing material,to cause both the form and matter of someting pre-conceived in the causer's thought which after creation,is other than the cause." Hooper ,The collected letters..870

Although not a novelist, Karl Marx refers to Mormons and the Book of Mormon in a couple of his letters. Not in a negative way, but just as an object of certain points he was trying to make. Intersting.

"How like a god'is a man, until he makes the fatal false step of claiming divinity and goes plumb down to devil-hood."
CS Lewis REFLECTION on the PSALMS,12.

Lets not foget that C.S. Lewis and Tolkien were close friends and would meet every week to share ideas for there books. While Lewis' books are definitely an allegory Tolkien refused to admit that his were.

Ernest Hemingway once said that if he had it to do over again, he'd be a Mormon. Quoted in A. E. Hotchner's biography of Hemingway.

Robert Millet in his writings "So far as I can tell,however,Lewis did not believe that men and women are punishd for what Adam and Eve did or that we individually "sinned in Adam'as the church fathers declared. selected writings of Robert Millet,2000. 476
CS Lewis "The man who can dismiss "sinned in Adam" as an'idiom"and identify virtue with herd instinct is no use to me,despite his very great learning."
Hooper,The collected letters...,450

Ramper: Ever heard of Dickens? He followed a group of emigrants to "expose" them as crazies. He came away impressed, calling them "the flower of England."

To "Don't lose it now" - Who you calling "sassy, grumpy, pompous, holier than thou"? LOL!! Maybe you should take a look in the mirror.

It is possible to find good in many things, but it is also possible to become lost in something that appears good and, at its root, is not. C.S. Lewis wrote a lot of good books. He was not a prophet. A lot of LDS people need to remember what the "most perfect book" is.