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Between Heaven And Hell

            The book itself is an interesting twist on the premise of worldview importance. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley apparently takes place within minutes of their deaths. Each man did die on the same day of November 22, 1963. Their deaths were within three hours of each other. How utterly impossible this turn of events seems to be.
             J.F.K. is cast as a modernistic, or humanistic, Christian. His worldview is systematically brought out by both C.S.Lewis and Aldous Huxley in so much as he was, or had become, the product of a generation of people who had been faced with perceived conflicts in theoretical or religious beliefs. The "modern" or "human" thing to do was to file these emotions or thoughts into categories of potentials or possibilities versus beliefs or values. The comments that Kennedy makes throughout the text tells me that he was constantly sitting on the edge of the fence in regard to many issues of a religious nature. He did not really share his own true beliefs, he merely suggested that his opinions were worthwhile and valid to him and the population that he represented. He never came out and said, "This is what I believe, or feel". It was always implied. I thought Mr. Kennedy's portrayal may have been stretched a little too far to the right however. He and Mr. Huxley were obviously set-up in this conversation by the author to allow his interpretation of Mr. Lewis" worldview to be considered the correct one. If the authors" poetic license was supposed to totally clarify the characters position or stand on the issues as he presented them, then I missed it. C.S. Lewis was definitely the object of the message to the reader and his views and stands were apparent on every point. Mr. Kennedy was also "wishy-washy" on many aspects of his own views on most items brought out by the author. I know that this attitude or mind-set is associated with the type of worldview he had. I also think that his being the first Roman Catholic to reach the White House (I think I remember this from somewhere) had something to do with his choice in this book.


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