Thoughts
Lewis's criticism of "Christianity, and" is so so so funny because I see it everywhere now, and not even in regards to Christianity.
It's such a brutal razor.
It essentially asks, is this idea valuable in itself, or only valuable in order to give me new ways to talk about other things. Or to let me talk about other things, or to give me new things to talk about.
"'Christianity And.' You know—Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity and the New Order, Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and Psychical Research, Christianity and Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform. If they must be Christians, let them [this is Screwtape letters, so satire from Lewis's perspective] at least be Christians with a difference. Substitute for the faith itself some Fashion with a Christian colouring."