But disease and insanity have been especially tempting concepts to equate with sinfulness, for a great many #Christian fanatics, because these are things that can afflict someone who once was healthy and sinless. Contracting a disease or developing a mental disorder gives them a way of explaining temptation in a manner that doesn't encourage them to think about their own tendencies to be tempted. Others make the mistake of getting sick or going mad, but the good and pure person, the person of pristine health and sound "genetics", they remain untouched by sin and the wiles of the Devil.

It's been no help whatever, of course, that writers of Christian apologetics such as G. K. #Chesterton and the obnoxious #CSLewis have freely appealed to analogies involving health and sanity in order to justify their own zeal for proselytization.

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@Nigel_Purchase all the U.S. (and Canadian =) Christofascist quasi-intellectuals need to do is whisper the magic words "C. S. Lewis" and the British politicians will faint dead away into a stupor of prettified, insufferably nostalgized depictions of Jack Lewis as Father Christmas (a role he loved to play—#CSLewis was an early exponent of #cosplay) and they'll do anything the Republicans want.

I feel as if the evangelical types in America vaguely feel that Jack Lewis is theirs. So much of that C. S. Lewis brand is their work, not Lewis's. And American colleges have claimed all Jack Lewis's papers.

And other #Inklings' papers, which seems just a little twisted to me. Has #Britain so little regard for its own literary giants that they're willing to cede custody of the legacy of an entire literary club to a pack of U.S. Bible bashers who most definitely do NOT have disinterested "Lewis scholarship" solely in mind?