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View Poll Results: What Confession Do You Belong to?
Atheism 19 16.67%
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Christianity (Protestant) 37 32.46%
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Old 01-30-2006, 02:39 PM   #1
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Can growth in faith through Tolkien be a little indirect? The books that have had the biggest effect on me religiously are those of C.S. Lewis. Lewis was a close personal friend of Tolkien, as well as being fellow member of Inklings, an informal club to discuss and encourage its members essays into fiction...

Well Iwould say yes since Tolkien was an influence on Lewis's conversion although he was disappointed that he reverted to the church he had been brought up in rather than becoming a Catholic..
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