Word: sophisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criticism in England. But Lewis' Christianity, says his critic, has brought him more money than it ever brought Joan of Arc, and a lot more publicity than she enjoyed in her lifetime. In contrast to his tight scholarly writing (says this critic), Lewis' Christian propaganda is cheap sophism: having lured his reader onto the straight highway of logic, Lewis then inveigles him down the garden path of orthodox theology...
These are hard questions. Thus far most Americans have taken refuge in a grim and too easy sophism: "The Russians and Poles and Czechs will handle the Germans; the Chinese will take care of the Japs before we can do anything anyway." But can the U.S., fighting a united war for a united peace, retreat into moral isolation? The Nazis think not. Last week they were blaming the Kharkov hangings on Roosevelt and Churchill, and threatening to take retaliation on U.S. and British prisoners...