The Justin Dyer Interview: Narnian Natural Law
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This is the Babylon Bee Interview Show.
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to professor of political science Justin Dyer, author of C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law and director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. Topics range from C.S. Lewis’ view on natural law, being a classical liberal, and how C.S. Lewis wanted all kids off his lawn.
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Topics Discussed
- How Dyer became interested in CS Lewis
- Would CS Lewis vote for Trump
- How Lewis pulls theology, philosophy, and politics all into his writing
- What is natural law?
- C.S. Lewis influences
- C.S. Lewis being a classical liberal
- Social Dilemma
- Abolition of man and the modern times
- Left and right attacking natural law in Lewis’ time
- C.S. Lewis would be a libretraian
- Lewis wanted to be treated like a dinosaur
- Abolition of man waterfall
- C.S. Lewis criticism of english language textbooks
- Objective standards to beauty and art
- Oxytocin for humor
Subscriber portion
- Lewis answering every letter written to him
- Lewis hated his modern technology
- Lewis didn’t like change
- Lewis wouldn’t be a fan of twitter
- CS Lewis and Sexuality
- Cs Lewis view on marriage made Tolkien uncomfortable
- How one writer believes Lewis is going to Hell
- Lewis’ view of tradition
- 10 Questions
- Great embarrassing story
Transcript
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| 0:10.0 | Hard-hitting questions. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you think about feminism? |
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| 0:18.0 | Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made |
| 0:21.0 | and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars. |
| 0:25.0 | Kyle pulls no punches. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night. |
| 0:30.0 | Ethan brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope. |
| 0:35.0 | If I may, how double dare you? |
| 0:38.0 | This is the Babylon B Interview Show. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Babylon B Interview Show. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Kyle. |
| 0:49.0 | I am still Ethan. |
| 0:51.0 | Still? |
| 0:52.0 | Yep. |
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