If you want an argument against Christianity (and I well remember how eagerly I looked for such arguments when I began to be afraid it was true) you can easily find some unsatisfactory Christian and say "so there is your boasted new man! Give me the old kind." But, if once you've begun to see that Christianity is on other grounds probable, you will know in your heart that this is only a evading the issue.
What can you ever really know of other people's souls – their situations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands.
If there is a God, you are in a sense, alone with him. You cannot put him off with speculations about your next-door neighbor or memories of what you have read in books or how you were hurt in church. What will all that chatter and hearsay count when the anesthetic fog which we call "nature" or "The real world" fades away and the presence in which you have always stood become is palpable, immediate, and unavoidable?
C.S. Lewis
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