Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
In 1943, in the midst of a world war and at the dawn of a technological era, C.S. Lewis published a slender but thunderous work titled The Abolition of Man. At the time, it was a philosophical defense of objective values against creeping relativism. Today, it reads like prophecy.
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave channels C.S. Lewis as he imagines Satan directing his demons in further devilment after a successful year.
So instead of brow-beating people with conventional forces, the Jesuits took a literal hearts-and-minds approach, respecting the locals, educating them, providing services that made their lives better, preparing fertile ground for the seed of God’s Word. And they were very, very good at what they did—too good.