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The irony of your "Um, lunatic, obviously," followed by loud complaints about things being "...glossed over as if 'obviously so', when it's so not" is hard to i
by NateEag 8y ago
The irony of your "Um, lunatic, obviously," followed by loud complaints about things being "...glossed over as if 'obviously so', when it's so not" is hard to ignore.
Regardless, I don't recall him dismissing atheism in a single sentence, but it has been years and it's quite possible I've just forgotten.
What's the sentence?
- smcameron 8y agoI can't seem to find my copy of the book right now, having recently moved, it's somewhere among the books in my shelves, but... can't find it. The sentence in question is near the end of one of the chapters in the first half of the book. The second half of the book seems to assume the first half of the book is a given and is consequently a complete waste of time, being built upon a false premise. The only people who think this is a reasonable book are people who are already Christians.
- mjrpes 8y agoI have the book and the argument is on pg. 33-34 in my edition: 1. There exists a moral law within ourselves that instructs us on what we "ought" to do. 2. There must be a "mind" behind this force, as "you can hardly imagine a bit of matter giving instructions". I think Lewis would revise or abandon his argument if he lived in our age.
- NateEag 8y agoOkay, thanks for the info.