{"id":83522,"date":"2020-03-13T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=83522"},"modified":"2020-03-15T23:09:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:09:36","slug":"we-havent-let-anyone-take-us-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2020\/03\/we-havent-let-anyone-take-us-in.html","title":{"rendered":"“We haven’t let anyone take us in.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"King's<\/a>
The famous chapel of King\u2019s College, Cambridge. \u00a0After years of study and teaching at Oxford, C.S. Lewis finished up his academic career as a professor at the University of Cambridge. \u00a0
(Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Occasionally, when I\u2019m reading online comments from some of the more embittered, alienated, cynical, and angry\u00a0critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>, I\u2019m powerfully\u00a0reminded of a passage from near the conclusion of The Last Battle<\/em>, which is, itself, the final volume in C.S. Lewis\u2019s wonderful series \u201cThe Chronicles of Narnia\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Aslan raised his head and shook his mane. \u00a0Instantly a glorious feast appeared on the Dwarfs\u2019 knees: pies and tongues and pigeons and trifles and ices, and each Dwarf had a goblet of good wine in his right hand. \u00a0But it wasn\u2019t much use. \u00a0They began eating and drinkung greedily enough, but it was clear that they couldn\u2019t taste it properly. \u00a0They thought they were eating and drinking only the sort of things you might find in a stable. \u00a0One said he was trying to eat hay and another said he got a bit of an old turnip and a third said he\u2019d found a raw cabbage leaf. \u00a0And they raised golden goblets of rich red wine to their lips and said \u201cUgh! Fancy drinking dirty water out of a trough that a donkey\u2019s been at! \u00a0Never thought we\u2019d come to this.\u201d \u00a0But very soon every Dwarf began suspecting that every other Dwarf had found something nicer than he had, and they started grabbing and snatching, and went on to quarreling, till in a few minutes there was a free fight and all the good food was smeared on their faces and clothes or trodden under foot. But when at last they sat down to nurse their black eyes and their bleeding noses, they all said:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, at any rate there\u2019s no Humbug here. We haven\u2019t let anyone take us in. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou see,\u201d said Aslan. \u201cThey will not let us help them. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their own minds yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I know, I know. \u00a0In some ways, it could scarcely come out at a more difficult time. \u00a0Are people going to movies, still?<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy \u201cHeart of Africa\u201d will Grab Your Heart\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I haven\u2019t seen it yet, but I look forward to doing so.<\/p>\n

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