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Ayn Rand Really, Really Hated C.S. Lewis

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vidugavia6/01/2013 5:22:47 pm PDT

re: #17 dragonath

Yes, actually. Look up “Prosperity Gospel”. In Virginia, the GOP nominee for Lieutenant Governor is a proponent. There are many more.

I know about the prosperity gospel. We have some of those here to. But do they really like a proud atheist like Rand? Don’t they have more fitting books to read?

And from what I know of Lewis, he would probably loathe anything connected to the prosperity gospel. How do these people make their worldview work?

By googling i found a fitting commentary by Lewis demon Screwtape regarding how to corrupt humans:

If, on the other hand, the middle years prove prosperous, our position is even stronger. Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is “finding his place in it,” while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work, build up in him a sense of being really at home on Earth, which is just what we want.