Perelandra, Part 4: The Fight

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Joseph Weigel, of the Men with Chests podcast, joins Chris to talk about the fight between Ransom and the Un-man in Perelandra.

 

Maybe it's all the gimmicky '80s fight songs we feature in this episode, but Chris is feeling rather combative this podcast. He questions many of Lewis' premises in this portion, sending the two down a number of theological dark alleys.

Among other things, we talk about:

• The realistic awkwardness of this fight
• Would it have been morally acceptable to kick the Un-man in the unmentionables? What about to shoot him?
• Is it morally (or theologically) lawful to take the course Ransom does, even in a hypothetical setting? Would it really have been gnostic to refuse to finish off a man who was begging for his life?
• Why wouldn't the Un-man have had superior strength like the demoniac in Acts? And why not exorcise him?
• Does it help us to hate the Devil? Is that the same thing as hating evil? And if we're meant to hate something, what does that say about our own origins?
• Realizing that humans aren't central to creation versus "The Empirical Bogey"
• Dante's damned and the false appeal to pity
• "The Rind" and John Askins; is the possibility that everything is meaningless harder to refute than Weston's original philosophy?
• Awe at the numinous, fear of tigers, loathing of bugs, and hatred of devils
• The disquieting idea that perhaps the Prelude to Act III of Wagner's Lohengrin would have made a better soundtrack than the many 80's anthems we feature here, including:
  • "Eye of the Tiger," by Survivor
  • "Gonna Fly Now," by Bill Conti
  • "I Have Decided," by Don Potter
  • "The Final Countdown," by Europe
  • "Tonight," from West Side Story
  • "You're the Best Around," by Joe Esposito

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