Having said that he was an Atheist, I hasten to add that he was a “Rationalist” of the old, high and dry nineteenth-century type. For atheism has come down in the world since those days, and mixed itself with politics and learned to dabble in dirt<\/strong>. The anonymous donor who now sends me anti-God magazines hopes, no doubt, to hurt the Christian in me; he really hurts the ex-Atheist. I am ashamed that my old mates…should have sunk to what they are now.<\/p>\n-C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, p.139<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Lewis respected careful reasoning. I doubt he would be impressed by the crop of today’s atheists who have never dealt robustly with philosophy, anthropology and such. They are cruising in the ships of bio-evolution (there is no creator) or pop-psychology (religion is a mental disease), whose fare is cheap and it’s crew more form than substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Speaking of his friend Ulster Scot, Lewis writes: Having said that he was an Atheist, I hasten to add that he was a “Rationalist” of the old, high and dry nineteenth-century type. For atheism has come down in the world since those days, and mixed itself with politics and learned to dabble in dirt. The … <\/p>\n
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