Christopher Hitchens Claims that MLK Wasn’t a Christian! WHAT?
In the first decade of the 21st century, Christopher Hitchens, along with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, really made a splash with what has been labeled “The N...
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Let’s Get Hitched! Christopher Hitchens Claims “Religion” is Evil…Is It?
Christopher Hitchens is a thoroughly modern, Enlightenment thinker—by that, I mean he is completely devoted to the Enlightenment worldview that essentially beli...
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity: The Practical Conclusion (Warning: Lewis Likes Evolution!)
Having explained the Christian understanding of the atonement in the previous chapter, Lewis puts forth what he feels is the “practical conclusion” to all of th...
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity: The Perfect Penitent
For the past week, I have written a number of posts on Ken Ham. This week I am going back to C.S. Lewis. After pointing out that Answers in Genesis is not promo...
C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity: The Shocking Alternative
Believing that there is a “good” God while acknowledging that this world is a screwed up place is quite a dilemma—how can both be true? The answer, Lewis points...
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”: The Invasion
A “Simple” Religion Have you ever met someone who complains that if Christianity really was true that it wouldn’t contain so many complicated, hard to understan...
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”: Rival Conceptions of God
We now come to “Book Two” of Mere Christianity. If you remember, “Book One” simply made the case that if there is a “Something/Someone” behind the natural unive...
C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity: We Have Cause to be Uneasy
In Book 1:5 of Mere Christianity, in his chapter entitled, “We Have Cause to be Uneasy,” Lewis wraps up the main argument of Book One. He begins by anticipating...
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”: The Moral Law
The very concept of some sort of “moral law” can be somewhat problematic, and can easily be twisted into a kind of fundamentalist legalism that sees all life an...
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis: The Moral Law… “To Hell With Your Standard!”
We now begin our adventure into C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. It seems that too many times well-meaning Christians immediately “go to the Bible” to try to conv...