Mere Christianity: Morality and Psychoanalysis
Here’s a question for you: if someone suffers a psychotic break and, in the midst of that, takes a knife and slits the throat of an innocent person, is that per...
Category: Book Review
Mere Christianity: Social Morality
In 3:3 of Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis addresses the topic of morality at the social level. It may come as a shock to modern Evangelical conservatives in Ameri...
Mere Christianity: The Cardinal Virtues
C.S. Lewis was a well-respected professor of medieval literature. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that when discussing the idea of Christian morality, Lewis hearke...
Mere Christianity: Three Parts of Morality
Over the past couple of weeks I have not written any posts on C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity. A friend of mine suggested I get back to it, and so since someon...
Finale! Saying Goodbye to Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens is a kick to read. At the beginning of this last post on his book, god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, I want to make one th...
The Bible is Immoral! Christopher Hitchens Had Declared It to be So!
Christopher Hitchens is convinced. There is no doubt in his mind: the Bible approves of the worst kinds of cruelty! According to Hitchens, “The Bible may, indee...
The B-I-B-L-E! That’s Not the Book For Christopher Hitchens!
It is now time to analyze Christopher Hitchens’ take on the Bible. It should come as no surprise to find that, although Hitchens’ main argument is “religion” (o...
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...
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...