More: Fact check: What's true and what's false about coronavirus? Our rating: False Lewis Foundation also has a page on their site dedicated to quotes that have been misattributed to Lewis and directs visitors to O'Flaherty's blog.
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In 2017, Christianity Today debunked 10 popular quotes that were falsely attributed to Lewis, or were very close to what he said but worded incorrectly. "Having somebody famous confirming notions they already hold is 'icing on the cake.'" "People often take their already held beliefs and either look for support or think they have support for them because of a quote that is alleged to be from a trusted source," O'Flaherty wrote. In a study published in Taylor University in 2014, O'Flaherty concluded there are a variety of reasons as to why people incorrectly credit Lewis as the source of a quotation. O'Flaherty further debunked the claim that the quote cited in the viral Facebook post came from Lewis in a YouTube video. He also noted on his site that an English translation of the Spanish edition of "The Screwtape Letters" is "The Devil's Letters to His Nephew." Lewis has history of being misattributed "Some clearly state they were not written by Lewis and others seem to think it is more clever to not mention this fact," O'Flaherty wrote. Lewis: What He Didn't Say, What He Actually Said, and Why It Matters" wrote that many people have reimagined the "Screwtape Letter" over the years. Lewis website and author of "The Misquotable C.S. Five years after publishing, Lewis was featured on the cover of Time magazine with a devil on his shoulder, and the novel became one of his most popular works, The New Yorker reported. "The Screwtape Letters" is about a senior demon named Screwtape who writes encouragement and advice letters to his nephew, who is trying to win the soul of a young man. While a Google search of the passage does not appear in the digital version of "The Screwtape Letters" via Google Books, one expert says it is possible the novel could have inspired the claim.
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The text also does not appear a book called the "Quotable Lewis" that features 1,500 quotes from the British author. The quote from the post does not appear in the nonfiction books Lewis published in 1942: " The Case for Christianity," " A Preface to Paradise Lost," " Broadcast Talks" and " The Screwtape Letters." Users on social media attributed the passage to Lewis - well-known for writing "The Chronicles of Narnia" - and related the text to current behaviors of the COVID-19 pandemic. The text goes on to say that people participated in "a big concentration camp for voluntary prisoners" because people did not leave their houses, have human contact or take walks.