Yesterday we met in the cafeteria for class which was really cool. At my table we talked a lot about J.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and how they have made their impact on literature. We discussed who was the better writer and we came up with this conclusion. C.S. Lewis was the better thinker in terms of philosophy and theology but Tolkien was a better dreamer and story teller. I mean he came up with an entire world and new languages for each race to speak. I'm not taking away from Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia ,but in my opinion, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was just stunning. He had an imagination that I can only dream off. I remember reading both the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series as a young teenager. The story takes you in and you almost become part of the story. I haven't to this day found a better book on fiction than Tolkien's the Hobbit and LOTR.
C.S. Lewis is probably the most influential writer in my life. His book Mere Christianity has helped me hammer out my believes. I've always had a problem with just accepting what people say when it comes to Christian beliefs. His book laid out the Christian foundations in way that I could understand them. He goes into great detail to lay out principles by which you can follow his thinking. He talks about in Mere Christianity how Christianity is the only true way to find God, but he also talks about how some religions are closer to being right than others. He uses a mathematics example to explain. In a math problem there is only one right answer but some answers are closer to being right than others. I agree with Mr. Lewis on this point. Burning religious books and scriptures is not the way we are supposed to act.
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