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Jewish World Review Nov. 14, 2013/ 11 Kislev, 5774 Kennedy, Huxley and Lewis By Cal Thomas
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Three famous men died on Of the three, it was Lewis who not only was the most influential of his time, but whose reach extends to these times and likely beyond. His many books continue to sell and the number of people whose lives have been changed by his writing expands each year. On the 50th anniversary of his death,
A friend of mine once said, "Humility is so light a grace that once you think you've achieved it, you've lost it." In so many places -- from It is a major reason, I think, why Pope Francis is enjoying so much favorable attention, including from non-Catholics and even non-Christians. The pope exudes humility in the style of Mother Teresa. There is a natural -- or supernatural -- attraction to such people because it is a quality most know they should have, but are unsure where to find it. Many refuse to even embark on the journey.
While no one has ever been argued to faith, In perhaps his most influential work, "Mere Christianity," Lewis addresses people who call Jesus of Nazareth something He never called Himself: "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." It was this passage and Lewis' chapter on pride that brought On Some people long for another
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JWR contributor Cal Thomas is co-author with Bob Beckel, a liberal Democratic Party strategist, of "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America". Comment by clicking here.
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