What do atheists think?

Question

about C.S. LEWIS? wasnt he one of the most logical thinking men according to the atheists (so ive heard what some atheists in the past said)? then he set out to disprove Christianity but found that it was actually true to him, and then became a christian himself. what does that say to you? that a man who hated the belief of an actual God that actually love you and that you can go somewhere thats a paradise by doing the simple task of accepting Jesus Christ as God's son and your Savior, can go try to disprove it all, end up being changed to believe it all, then writing a book called "mere christianity" to encourage christians saying "this is why christianity is true".

what do you think about that? please give sensible answers

Answer 1

He reached a point in his life where it served a purpose to become a believer. It was a conscious choice on his part to depart from once using his wonderful brain to relying on superstitions. But just because one believes something is true does not make it so. There are many more former Christians who have woken up so it works both ways.

Answer 2

"...C.S. LEWIS? wasnt[sic] he one of the most logical thinking men according to the atheists... "

Sorry, but I've never heard an atheist make this claim. Pleas cite sources.

"...he set out to disprove Christianity..."

No he didn't. His christian writings came after his conversion.

"...an actual God that actually love you and that you can go somewhere thats[sic] a paradise by doing the simple task of accepting Jesus Christ as God's son and your Savior... what do you think about that?"

I think it's all a crock.

To answer your initial question, "What do atheists think of C.S. Lewis?" We don't think of him, except maybe when we're reading The Screwtape Letters, or something.

Answer 3

C.S. Lewis wrote some of my favourite childhood books and I give him props for that.

However he wasn't an atheist. He might have rejected gawd at some point in his young life and declared himself an atheist as a lot of young Xians do when rebelling but this fear stays with them during their atheism. They're not truly atheists as we don't beleive in gawd so it's not possible to hate him. I don't know about you, but I don't hate things that don't exist. This might however be a Xian concept that I simply don't understand. If so, please explain how you can hate the imaginary.

But a lot of people have "converted" when trying to prove Xianity wrong. It doesn't make it any more real or right, it's simply their interpretation of it.

I did a comparative religion thing when I was younger, but I didn't just use the buybull. I used a whole bunch of other religious texts as well and was prepared to convert to that if I found one that I couldn't disprove. And here I am 20 years later still with both feet planted firmly in the atheist camp.

So what does that tell you?

Answer 4

There are some Christians who've become atheists, what do you think about that?

I disagree with the fact that C.S. Lewis was one of the most logical men. But it says to me that people change their minds. People have this idea that what famous people think must be true, but it's not.

Answer 5

Well first,any person theist or atheist can be logical and rational to an extent and to agree with that person regardless of belief is fine.

If C.S. Lewis hated a god since he was an "atheist" then he was not an atheist. Atheists cannot hate the in-existent so that voids his atheism.

Answer 6

I think that he found some aspects of Christianity that touched him emotionally, and he felt it would be beneficial to himself personally.
But his personal decision is not proof of Christianity, nor is it proof for the existence of God.
If we were to use one or two conversions to Christianity as proof of it's truth, then we'd also need to use the fact that most atheists become atheists after reading the Bible and thoroughly researching religion as proof of atheism's truth.
Never in my life did I search so passionately for God as I did when I first started to doubt. And I spent YEARS searching and praying and reading and researching before I came to the conclusion that I just didn't believe it, and had NO reason whatsoever to believe it. Even since I became atheist, I still research, and I have never found anything in Christianity that hasn't been found to be the inventions of men.

Answer 7

most logical thinking man? He is mainly known nowadays as an author of children stories, not as a philosopher. Maybe that should tell you something about the value of this statement.

This statement: "I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Anti-theists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry at God for not existing. I was equally angry at Him for creating a world." does neither bear evidence of being logical nor of being atheist. Some confused agnostic or anti-theist. A logical atheist will never be angry at god for creating a world.

Answer 8

Not much. I don't know where you get that he was all that logical. And there is no documentation that he ever even was an atheist. He made that claim later, but several things indicate that he never was a total disbeliever. Mostly saying that he was angry with god for not existing. If you really are an atheist, you can't be angry at god for anything.

Answer 9

I love reading CS Lewis, he does a pretty good job of thinking through things.

But as with all faith based belief, at the end of the day, he had to rely on his own indoctrination and emotion for what 'felt' right for him.

Thats the difference between CS Lewis and Huxley. In the end, one required tangible evidence for belief, one was satisfied with emotion.

Answer 10

I've read several of his books; while I found them very eloquent and convincing on the idea of a higher power in general, I was not convinced that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. That's just too huge of a logical leap for me to take, no matter how well-worded it is.