(CNN) – He looked like a “red-faced pork butcher in
shabby tweeds,” lived secretly with a woman for years and was so turned
on by S&M that he once asked people at a party whether he could
spank them.
We’re talking, of course, about C.S. Lewis, the Christian icon and
author of classics such as “Mere Christianity” and “The Chronicles of
Narnia.”
It’s tempting to remember Lewis only as the self-assured defender of
Christianity who never met an argument he couldn't demolish. His death
50 years ago, on November 22, 1963, was overshadowed by the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He has since become a patron
saint of American evangelicals.
But the actual man whom friends called “Jack” had a “horrible”
personal life, thought he had failed as a defender of Christianity and
spent so much time in pubs that his publishers initially struggled
selling him to a religious audience, scholars say. Continue at John Blake
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