Ha, thanks everyone for engaging so profusely with my initial rant. I think all the angles have been well-covered. I'll just add that any of you who think Lewis and/or MacDonald have little literary merit and are reducible to dishonesty and/or didacticism, well...<div>
<br></div><div>you can go suck an egg. And I wish you speedy recovery from your literary myopia. :) </div><div><br></div><div>As to Lee's direct question:<br><div><br></div><div>Just as a thought experiment, what would the reverse bring for you? What if<br>
there was, say, a deathbed confession by Wolfe that all his work was meant to<br>subvert belief in Christ and promote worship of Satan or Dionysus. Would you be<br>out? <br></div><div><br></div><div>This did happen to me in the past few years with one of my favourite singers and lyricists, Nick Cave. First I just loved his musical and lyrical artistry - some of my all-time favourite stuff. Then I noticed his lyrics were consistently more and more 'God-conscious' and even specifically 'Christ-conscious'. Then he started professing to believe in God and in Christ (if in an idiosyncratic sense) - then his lyrics became even more blatantly 'Christian'. Then he suddenly said in several interviews on the back of his second novel coming out (The Death of Bunny Munro) that he did not believe in the literal existence of a personal God - contradicting quite clear statements in interviews in very recent years. Was I confused and even disappointed? Yeah. Have I abandoned enjoying, following and analysing his work? No way. Do I think the discussion is closed? Uh-uh.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-DOJP</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Lee Berman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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>Daniel Petersen: PLEASE (EVERYONE) LISTEN TO THIS IF NOTHING ELSE:<br>
>I'm worried that some here can only stomach Wolfe if he can be kept<br>
>ambiguous about Catholic orthodoxy and that if it could ever be shown that<br>
>HIS FICTION clearly 'favours' the Church, then they would be out. I'm<br>
>beginning to wonder if the need to keep that at bay fuels a lot of the<br>
>debate here.<br>
<br>
Daniel, there has been much militant atheism found in the media in the past<br>
few years so I understand your concern. I don't think it is has a good basis<br>
when it comes to the Lupiverse though. Consider Peter Wright who, in Attending<br>
Daedalus, takes a deeply analytical view of BotNS which is entirely secular.<br>
Despite Wright's atheist leanings I don't think he is any less of a Wolfe fan<br>
when forced to acknowledge Wolfe's Christian influences on his writing. I<br>
suspect the same is true for any militant atheists who happen to reside here.<br>
<br>
Just as a thought experiment, what would the reverse bring for you? What if<br>
there was, say, a deathbed confession by Wolfe that all his work was meant to<br>
subvert belief in Christ and promote worship of Satan or Dionysus. Would you be<br>
out?<br>
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