What have you got against Christianity?
I’m friends on Facebook with a gentleman who was one of the assistant ministers at a Protestant parish I used to attend. He has since become the vicar of a different parish in another part of the country. For the purposes of this post, I’m going to call him Father Tow.
A few weeks ago, I had a rather strange conversation with Father Tow. It was prompted by his posting the following image on Facebook:
Being a huge C.S. Lewis fan, I immediately recognized that this was a common misquotation. What Lewis actually wrote was:
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it but because by it, I see everything else.”
C.S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?”, The Weight of Glory
I therefore commented on the picture, saying that it’s a great quotation, but that it’s not quite what Lewis wrote.
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