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wellinghall"Biographer Joseph Pearce says the famous South African poet Roy Campbell saw the Spanish Civil War as a religious conflict between Christianity and atheistic modernism.
In a recent interview with CNA, Pearce said Campbell – who was the inspiration behind the character Aragorn in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings – believes 'the war in Spain was a battle between Christian tradition and atheistic modernism. In other words, he saw it as a religious conflict.'"
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/spanish-civil-war-seen-as-religious-conflict-biographer-says/
In a recent interview with CNA, Pearce said Campbell – who was the inspiration behind the character Aragorn in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings – believes 'the war in Spain was a battle between Christian tradition and atheistic modernism. In other words, he saw it as a religious conflict.'"
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/spanish-civil-war-seen-as-religious-conflict-biographer-says/
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Date: 2012-02-29 06:57 am (UTC)Also, I took the same view as Jason!
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