Mar
17
2008
C.S. Lewis On Atheism
Here are some priceless quotes from C.S. Lewis on atheism. Although I have seen every one of these sentences before in their original contexts, I have to thank the most recent issue of Modern Reformation magazine for pulling them all together:
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.”
“When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.”
“Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.”
“I believe in God as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg–or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.”