He goes on to quote his fellow British writer G. K. Chesterton: “A man’s reasons for not wanting his country to be ruled by foreigners are very like his reasons for not wanting his house to be burned down; because he could not even begin to enumerate all the things he would miss.” Lewis argues that love of one’s own country, like love of one own’s family, along with its customs and traditions, is a natural, good love that God has placed in all of us and that serves a spiritual purpose, which is to prime us for the unnatural love to which Christians are called: the selfless love that we show
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