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Leila Marie Lawler's avatar

Lewis wasn't wrong!

He only said that if there were other races elsewhere, they would not be fallen, and its a measure of OUR fallenness that we can only imagine them as evil.

He wrote novels about creatures on other planets because he was exploring the idea of what an unfallen race would be like, and indeed it is very hard for us to imagine this! He believed in the depths of sin and wanted to show that we would be a danger to an unfallen race, not the other way around -- in order to confront us, imaginatively, with the depravity we often just deprecate as uninteresting or unimportant. We are *comfortable* in our sinfulness.

He wanted to display the *differences* in creatures apart from their *sinfulness* -- the idea that God creates a diversity of beings and the diversity is not dependent on sin. In other words, in our sanctified natures we would not be all the same and we would delight in that splendor. The differences radiate His glory.

In fiction, creative writers imagine all sorts of things. That doesn't mean they think those things really exist. Tolkien didn't think there were elves and dwarves either...

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Paweł Ługiewicz's avatar

Greetings Mr. Kmita,

I appreciate your output very much, and consider it a valuable source of information regarding traditional Catholicism and classical metaphysics. Since one of my hobbies is translating interesting texts to Polish, I have translated a number of your articles. If you're interested in these translations, please feel free to contact me. My email address is pawel.lugiewicz@proton.me.

Best wishes,

Paweł Ługiewicz

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