Only Two Choices: Good or Evil          C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), an Anglican Christian, wrote many allegories as a marvelous and entertaining story teller. Our last article discussed his book, The Last Battle  as an allegory on the end of the world, and which gave us lessons about waking up to discover that we had held mistaken, untrue beliefs for quite a while.       Lewis also wrote an imaginative allegory about Heaven and Hell called, The Great Divorce . In this story, a group of people in Hell take a bus ride to Heaven, complaining all the way. They so disliked the place that they all re-board the bus to go back to Hell, which they greatly prefer. The entertaining story underscores that we each do have free will to choose, and it portrays the truth that our perceptions and our thinking are affected by our basic orientation toward either the good or evil.       Some people try to avoid this reality: t...

On Mistaken Belief          The last book in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia  called, The Last Battle , portrays different responses when a person believes something is true that later is learned to be false.       Now hard times had come on Narnia, and many Narnians were enslaved to the Calormen – although the Ape (a stooge for Tash, the Satan character) wants to convince them they are not enslaved. Ape mocks the Narnians as being naive for thinking they are enslaved and says, “Tash is only another name for Aslan [the Christ character]. All that old idea of us [Narnians] being right and the Calormenes wrong is silly. We know better now. The Calormenes use different words but we all mean the same thing. Tash and Aslan are only two different names for you know Who.... Get that into your heads, you stupid brutes. Tash is Aslan; Aslan is Tash.” Lewis is describing a situation where good and evil are so mixed as to be allegedly the sa...