Ehhh. The consistency of the pronoun usage is so strong that I would expect him to have generalized somewhere if he (either one) meant it.
The class he’s a part of is ‘philosophically weak borderline Christians’, not ‘Materialists’. After all, they guy isn’t a materialist. And if you’re a philosophically weak borderline Christian, the easiest route to materialism is indeed how useful it is, not a philosophical argument, because these folks don’t give a whit about philosophy.
Neither the demon nor Lewis is saying words which literally read like that, but words have implications beyond the literal.
Ehhh. The consistency of the pronoun usage is so strong that I would expect him to have generalized somewhere if he (either one) meant it.
The class he’s a part of is ‘philosophically weak borderline Christians’, not ‘Materialists’. After all, they guy isn’t a materialist. And if you’re a philosophically weak borderline Christian, the easiest route to materialism is indeed how useful it is, not a philosophical argument, because these folks don’t give a whit about philosophy.