I used to read the entire Narnia Chronicles every Christmas but had not done so for three or four years.Being laid low with a nasty virus, I tracked them down, dusted them off and returned to my state of marvelling at the expertise of the great professor.
Every major biblical doctrine is covered across the seven volumes - and in terms which may be understood by all. I shall refer to some of these in future postings.
Today, I look at Lewis the incredible social commentator. The Last Battle was first published exactly 50 years ago and yet he predicted the odious multifaith attitudes which would develop. In giving you a passage from that book, I must explain that the lion Aslan is the equivalent of Jesus and Tash represents all false gods; demons and even Satan. The manipulation of ordinary people's thinking is identical to today.
"We know better now. {They} use different words but we all mean the same thing. Tash and Aslan are just different names for you know Who. That's why there can never be any quarrel between them. Get that into your heads you stupid brutes.Tash is Aslan: Aslan is Tash."
Later on, the forces of evil combine the two into TASHLAN.
".....there is no such person as either...all who are enlightened know that" say two of the conspirators at a later time in the book.
Sellout merchants; deceivers; fifth columnists; so-called liberals are all granted licence by the apathetic to combine together to bring down a society from its very base.
I thought he was just a brilliant writer but no - he wrote prophetically and with Orwellian accuracy.
