Beards

[nameandnature]

Beards are important. As any evangelical will know, the words of C.S. Lewis are god-breathed and useful for teaching and training in righteousness. Hear what St Jack says:

“It is the business of these great masters to produce in every age a general misdirection of what may be called sexual ‘taste’. This they do by working through the small circle of popular artists, dressmakers, actresses and advertisers who determine the fashionable type. The aim is to guide each sex away from those members of the other with whom spiritually helpful, happy, and fertile marriages are most likely. Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females — and there is more in that than you might suppose….”
—C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

This chap elaborates.

More importantly (from my point of view), scribb1e likes them too.

Links courtesy of andrewducker and robhu.

Comments

[scribb1e.livejournal.com]

"For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him as an attribute of manhood, with a hairy chest—a sign of strength and rule."

I understand why you're fuming, but my reaction was laughter :-)) This is such a hilarious quote. I assumed at first that the blogger had made it up, but he turns out to be quoting St. Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-c. 215).

Wikipedia has no pictures of St Clement, but I imagine him toiling away with brush and papyrus to show that God thinks hairy men are best, occasionally stopping to plait his chest fur or tuck his beard under his arm. And then retiring to bed to dream about nice smooth women with flowing locks...

[cathedral-life.livejournal.com]

Ok, you've made me fume a bit less.

It is quite an amusing when you sit back and actually look at it from the point of view of a chest fur plaiter!