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Mark Jones's avatar

A small but not insignificant correction, George: he was already a deist by the time of the walk. In fact, the more I read the less convinced I am by CSL's 'famous' atheism. His heart was never in it. Atheists are nothing but progressive – and Lewis was anything but progressive. But I loved our walk. I managed to shut up and you made a good case for magic.

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Tim WILLIAMS's avatar

More like this, please George ! Perhaps something on John Polkinghorne, who worked to bridge the gap between science and religion? Polkinghorne observed that "debating with Dawkins is hopeless, because there's no give and take. He doesn't give you an inch. He just says no when you say yes." We all need to yield a little, never more than in these increasingly secular days when we need to have the curiosity accompanying agnosticism rather than the certainty of atheism. And we must all be grateful to C S Lewis for our sense of the numinous.

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