Reply #7: Ever read about Lewis' conversion?

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It wasn't exactly as dramatic as falling off/on your ass, like Paul on the Damascus road.

According to Lewis he was an atheist at college. I've always suspected he was a faux-atheist who just wanted to make his later conversion more impressive...sort of like the dork who wrote that article Synnical shared with us.

Three of his friends proselytized him until, according to Lewis, "I gave in and admitted God was God." Yawn. He makes it sound about as much of a spiritual struggle as choosing a new smoking-jacket.

But even better, one of the friends who converted him convinced him that Xianity was...are you sitting down?

A true myth.

And that friend was none other than the author of "Peter Pan," J.M. Barrie.

I guess they weren't teaching Logic at Oxford back then, or something.

And I agree that "Mere Christianity" is tripe. When I finally read it, I was amazed at how many people had recommended it to me as the best intellectual defense of the faith.

I also think his children's books are way over-rated. Most of them are just stale re-hashes of the Xian myth. At least J.M. Barrie came up with something original...and at least as believable as the book of Genesis.