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Saturday, February 9, 2008
➢ Class 5: Discuss Book 3: Christian Behaviour, chapters 7-12 (pages 115-152)
Post here questions or topics that you would like discussed at the next class, which will meet on Sunday 10 February.
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Hi Hal,
Since I'm a total techie illiterate, I did try to do the blog, but all the different otions there about html, etc., then user name and such left me wondering if I could just write a comment without doing all those other things.
In any case, I found it interesting in Chapter 9 of "Christian Behaviour," as Lewis talked about "charity," said that the Christian treating everyone kindly, finds himself beginning to even "like" a person he may not have cared for before. He said that it worked the other way, too, that "perhaps, as the Germans treated the Jews so badly because they hated them: afterwards "hated them much more because they had ill-treated them. The more cruel you are, the more you will hate; and the more you hate, the more cruel you will become---and so on in a vicious circle forever."
Last night I was watching "Bill Moyers Journal" on PBS and he talked about this very topic as he told of a movie that I think is up for an Oscar. I can't remember the name, but it had something to do with "taxi," and must be something of a documentary about torture and how the United States has been involved in such atrocities. I should have written it down, but I tend to avoid those depressing things, unfortunately. His comment at the end was something to the effect that if we stoop to doing the same things as the countries or governments that committed those horrible acts, then the terrorists have already won, so as Lewis says, it becomes a vicious circle.
Lewis states everything so matter-of-factly, doesn't beat about the bush at all, and just seems to know right where we are. It amazes me that this book can be so old and yet so current. Is it because I'm older or do you as a younger person find the same thing?
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Hi Hal,
Since I'm a total techie illiterate, I did try to do the blog, but all the different otions there about html, etc., then user name and such left me wondering if I could just write a comment without doing all those other things.
In any case, I found it interesting in Chapter 9 of "Christian Behaviour," as Lewis talked about "charity," said that the Christian treating everyone kindly, finds himself beginning to even "like" a person he may not have cared for before. He said that it worked the other way, too, that "perhaps, as the Germans treated the Jews so badly because they hated them: afterwards "hated them much more because they had ill-treated them. The more cruel you are, the more you will hate; and the more you hate, the more cruel you will become---and so on in a vicious circle forever."
Last night I was watching "Bill Moyers Journal" on PBS and he talked about this very topic as he told of a movie that I think is up for an Oscar. I can't remember the name, but it had something to do with "taxi," and must be something of a documentary about torture and how the United States has been involved in such atrocities. I should have written it down, but I tend to avoid those depressing things, unfortunately. His comment at the end was something to the effect that if we stoop to doing the same things as the countries or governments that committed those horrible acts, then the terrorists have already won, so as Lewis says, it becomes a vicious circle.
Lewis states everything so matter-of-factly, doesn't beat about the bush at all, and just seems to know right where we are. It amazes me that this book can be so old and yet so current. Is it because I'm older or do you as a younger person find the same thing?
Wondering,
Caroline
P.S. Thanks for "stretching" us.
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