![]() He was a middle-of-the-road Anglican-he was not “conservative” in the current sense meaning “Evangelical” or fundamentalist-treating the Bible as “literal” or as magical (“inerrant”). OK, Lewis was certifiably conservative in terms of religion. ![]() In Mere Christianity, Lewis bluntly states that “a Christian society would be what we now call Leftist.” Above all, he rejected right-wing political and economic ideology. Given his rather liberal views on divorce, birth control, and homosexuality, he was not a recognizable “social conservative”. Almost everything he says about capitalism is negative. He was a “Red Tory”, a political type unfamiliar in the U.S. ![]() Lewis, is revered by right-wing conservatives as a saint, their trophy intellectual, but ironically, he was not “conservative,” not in their way. ![]() The famous author and religious writer, C. ![]()
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