SilasBarta comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 26 October 2009 06:14:53PM 3 points [-]

Wait, C. S. Lewis didn't believe in witches, i.e. that there could be people who "sold themselves to the devil and received supernatural powers from him in return and were using these powers" to hurt others? Color me surprised.

In any case, he certainly didn't do much to repudiate the part of his intellectual pedigree that was responsible for belief in witches in an attempt to avoid such errors in the future.