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GVC said:
In my experience, the more dogmatic someone is, the less likely they are to step out of their comfort zone. It's far easier to allow yourself to be fed "eternal truth" and "everlasting salvation" than to try to figure things out, with the knowledge that you have a very short amount of time to do so.
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How so? If somebody really believes that they are going to be carrying knowledge and understanding over and maybe one day themselves become a God, don't they have more incentive to learn?

Everyone else is trying to learn for money, to impress others, or learn for learning sakes. It's much harder to do so when you think your life's work is going to go up in a puff the second you die. Once you have money, why learn? Why not just indulge your life away?
 
Definitely Tolkien >> Lewis. Tolkien created an entire culture, mythos, languages (in other works he fleshed out middle-earth languages almost to the level of klingon) far beyond the simple Narnia stories. I loved the Narnia books as a kid, read them many times, but Tolkien always was the "grown up" fantasy stories. Tolkien even went so far as to imply it was a long-dead history of earth cultures. His works are the most-copied and influenced virtually every single fantasy work written since then. Stephen King said arguably his greatest work, the Dark Tower series, was directly influenced by Tolkien's middle earth.

Now if you are talking purely fiction that is in essence Christian propoganda (although still entertaining) then Lewis > Tolkien.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Definitely Tolkien >> Lewis. Tolkien created an entire culture, mythos, languages (in other works he fleshed out middle-earth languages almost to the level of klingon) far beyond the simple Narnia stories. I loved the Narnia books as a kid, read them many times, but Tolkien always was the "grown up" fantasy stories. Tolkien even went so far as to imply it was a long-dead history of earth cultures. His works are the most-copied and influenced virtually every single fantasy work written since then. Stephen King said arguably his greatest work, the Dark Tower series, was directly influenced by Tolkien's middle earth.

Now if you are talking purely fiction that is in essence Christian propoganda (although still entertaining) then Lewis > Tolkien.
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Well said.

Sorry for calling you stupid, Duck.
 
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