@george: Dear George, For your response I am most grateful and …

Comment on Academic Freedom Strikes Again! by wesley kime.

@george: Dear George,

For your response I am most grateful and impressed. I’m used to having you fire a well honed question at me or the audience. None. Instead, you holstered your gun and answered the one I fired at you, laying all your splendid cards quietly and forthrightly on the table – aces of spades, Camus and Satre, and I thought I saw the joker Plato, and the trump card, the engraved and autographed agnostic ace king – in a no-quibble royal flush, no tricks up your rolled-up sleeve.

There it is then, on the table. Evil and good are only platonic emanations. They are not beings. Elsewhere I thought I detected a momentary flash of a hint of a suspicion that at least God exists (“I find the conclusion that there is no God to be philosophically irrational,” to Sean, July 23, 2017 at 1:08 pm). That was then.

In depriving Satan of his existence, and God too, yet bemoaning evil, you are at least letting my God as personification if not creator of evil, off the hook. That’s refreshing, and in contrast to the several even of our own academic circles who have in previous years posted such frank accusations on this blog.

As to Lance Morrow, him I do I know. I’m his elder by 10 years. There was a time when I faithfully followed and enjoyed Time Magazine, especially Lance Morrow’s writings. Thanks for the review, I gather from Tweet, of his book Heart, which, I agree, well presents the problem if not the answer. Some of us believe, however, that there IS an answer. Your Royal Flush on the table, it belongs on the floor, is saying there isn’t.

wesley kime Also Commented

Academic Freedom Strikes Again!
@george: GEORGE: “Is it as black and white as that?” As CS Lewis put it? Yes. As S. Pitman has just put it and so thoroughly and convincingly, Yes, unequivocally. Dance!


Academic Freedom Strikes Again!
@george: Re. your knee-jerk swipe at C.S. Lewis’s challenge, there you go again, faithful pard, waltzing, or are you, ya varmit, shooting at our feet and gleefully commanding us to “dance!”
Well, sure, history does not and cannot deny that popes by their office have proclaimed themselves infallible despite personal deep corruption. But does it follow that the world’s “greatest teacher” could be the world’s greatest liar, as Satan, from the beginning, in heaven and in the garden, has insisted, and all too effectively for the majority of people and philosophers especially of the agnostic persuasion? And it was Christ Himself who, especially as recorded in the gospel of John, made His either-or proclamation of His divinity unavoidable, not CS Lewis, who merely was insightful enough to perceive what He was saying, and skillful enough to lay it out flat on the table and pound the table a little. Cannot you appreciate, maybe thrill to, his unadorned forthrightness? Certainly for this issue, Lewis doesn’t do the hokey pokey with you.


Academic Freedom Strikes Again!
@Sean Pitman: A choice quote, one that nails it, as only CS Lewis can. Which leads to this: those who nailed Him, crucified Him, insisted He was a blasphemer to boot. My, how far we’ve come from the animated Cricket.


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