Showing posts with label CS Lewis Institute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CS Lewis Institute. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

All the World Aflame, CS Lewis on Peace and War

I am researching war and peace for my Sunday School class. I stumbled upon this CS Lewis article. It's weighty, but worth it.

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CS Lewis War and Peace

...we have a duty to rescue a drowning man, and perhaps if we live on a dangerous coast, to learn life-saving so as to be ready for any drowning man when he turns up. It may be our duty to lose our own lives in saving him. But if anyone devoted himself to life-saving in the sense of giving it his total attention--so that he thought and spoke of nothing else and demanded the cessation of all other human activities until everyone had learned to swim--he would be a monomaniac. The rescue of drowning men is then a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. A man may have to die for his country: but no man must in any exclusive sense live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering unto Caesar that which of all things most emphatically belongs to God: himself (Weight 47).