Greg, oh Greg! Were you impressed by this little fiction?! Does religious dogma, masking as critical thought--leave you mesmerized and slack-jawed with wonder?
The article was nonsensical. Can cute analogies redeem a prejudicial and self-serving game of verbal gymnastics...LOL! Lewis was a very imaginative writer; I loved the Narnia series! But what does imagination and invention have to do with serious science or philosophy? Nothing in this article is anything other than Christian evangelism masquerading as philosophy.
He starts with the "ABSOLUTE" ( :-)) truth of the gospels, and he then proves that it IS absolute truth by the fact that people like food. :-) Therefore, because you like food--thus ALL people are all the same--blah blah. The bible is the TRUTH...because the bible is proof that people like food!. The only "moral" constancy between cultures, individuals, etc., is masturbation--but Lewis seems to avoid this obvious method of appreciating God for the easily disproved assertions of incredulous moral similitude between peoples.
Is it true that all people have the same morality? Sigh, sigh, smile, smile! :-) Is it always so obvious that people are SHOOTING AT THEMSELVES WHEN THEY DETERMINE RIGHT FROM WRONG!! Or are they shooting at others????????? Isn't it true that all the endless wars and killings prove that the sense of right and wrong is subjective, and shared by all the keepers of the mysteries and the secrets??!! The other guy is always wrong. You know that, Greg! Were not bisexual cultures morally equivalent to heterosexual cultures?! Were not incestuous cultures morally equivalent to cultures which were careful to have intimacy with only strangers?
Did cultures who believed in taking from the weak have the same morality as cultures who believed in giving to the weak?! Were cultures who exalted homosexual members, really of the same morality as cultures who condemned them?! Cannibalism and sacrifice and throwing rocks at peoples heads--what do these have to do with a pretence of commonality in the moral arena?! HA! HA!!
People do have similar needs and , of course, they share common biological motivations and inter social realities...but there is absolutely no evidence (even considering the "natural" supports that underpin the sense of social morality) to suppose an Absolute dogma to be an understood. Few people or cultures pee in their own nests...and the history of killing confirms that people have very different ideas of who and what are right...and who and who are wrong! Men with no chests? Ha! Ha! Ha! ~~~ or men with no balls?! :-)
I like C.S. Lewis--but he was a story teller--not a philosopher. His evangelism matches his other fantasy endeavors. He is renowned for both...and for the same reasons. :-) |
