A Taste of C.S. Lewis

A Taste of C.S. Lewis (Four quotes from his works)

One of the great difficulties to keep before the audience’s mind is the question of Truth. They always think you are recommending Christianity, not because it is true, but because it is good. And in the discussion they will at every moment try to escape from the issue of “true or false” into stuff about a better world, or morals, or the (incomes of televangelists), or the Crusades, or the Spanish Inquisition, or whatever. You have to keep forcing them back to the real point. Only thus will you be able to address their belief that a certain amount of “religion” is desirable but one mustn’t carry it too far. One must keep on pointing out that Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance at all, and if true, it is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The middle-aged male has great powers of passive resistance.

There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of Heaven ridiculous by saying they do not want to “spend eternity playing harps”. The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they shouldn’t talk about them. People who take these symbols literally might as well think that when Christ told us to be like doves, He meant that we were to lay eggs.

If it were not commanded, I would have no interest whatsoever in fellowshipping with Christians.