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1. WhiteExodite (bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 08:25:48 JST WhiteExodite

   in reply to
   @skylar on the topic, I came across this letter C.S. Lewis wrote to someone asking about writing "Christian fiction". I've always been bugged by works that feel obligated to virtue signal their right-wing or Christian beliefs and he had a good answer.
   
   >We must not of course write anything that will flatter lust, pride or ambition. But we needn’t all write patently moral or theological work. Indeed, work whose Christianity is latent may do quite as much good and may reach some whom the more obvious religious work would scare away. The first business of a story is to be a good story. When Our Lord made a wheel in the carpenter shop, depend upon it: It was first and foremost a good wheel. Don’t try to ‘bring in’ specifically Christian bits: if God wants you to serve him in that way (He may not: there are different vocations) you will find it coming in of its own accord. If not, well—a good story which will give innocent pleasure is a good thing, just like cooking a good nourishing meal. . . . Any honest workmanship (whether making stories, shoes, or rabbit hutches) can be done to the glory of God.
   
   we would find ourselves in a better place if everyone just took things as "fun" and "good" rather than "based and redpilled".