Quotes of the Week
Quote of the Week August 23, 2007
by Jimmy Hopper
Below is the Quote of the Week. It is from C. S. Lewis and his book, God in the Dock. It has to do with religion and society; religion and man; and ultimately luke-warm, societal religion of the kind we’ve been accustomed to in the South.
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The decline of “religion” is no doubt a bad thing for the “world.” By it all the things that made England a fairly happy country are, I suppose, endangered; the comparative purity of her public life, the comparative humanity of her police, and the possibility of some mutual respect and kindness between political opponents. But I am not clear that that it makes conversions to Christianity rarer or more difficult; rather the reverse. It makes the choice more unescapeable. When the Round Table is broken every man must follow either Galahad or Modred: middle things are gone.
Posted by Jimmy Hopper at August 23, 2007 04:22 PM
When good and solid patriots get misty-eyed about “a better and nobler time,” apparently they do not understand, read, or comprehend history. If anything, Lewis’ quote reveals that the loss of ‘religion’ simply melts away those that are nominal or lukewarm. And I like that.