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Worldview - JFK

The book itself is an interesting twist on the premise of worldview importance. A meeting between John F. Kennedy, C.S. 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 di...

Posted by: Arianna Escobar

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