Beware GK Chesterton and CS Lewis!!

Solemn greetings,

I stumbled upon some quotes from these two gentlemen today, and was quite appalled.

“Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in choosing your neckties, but in anything important such as death, sex, and religion, you must have mirth or you will have madness.” (GK Chesterton)

Now, I was all too eager to write this off as Roman novelty, given that Chesterton was a papist… But Lewis seems to take it just as far or even further!!

“Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It is one of the difficult and delightful subtleties of life that we must deeply acknowledge certain things to be serious and yet retain the power and will to treat them often as lightly as a game.” (CS Lewis [The Four Loves])

It’s so devastating to see two notable Christian writers from the early 20th century engage in such rank heresy. I’m so flabbergasted I’m not sure what to do with myself. Just wanted to share and warn so everyone can mark and avoid! Be careful out there!!

Please pray for me brothers & sisters. I will be sticking to reading Lamentations in the coming week to recover.

Mods don’t remove!! I put the illegal content in quotes only to call it out. Any future posts will only reference Puritan content. (and only early Puritanism just to be extra safe)