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Thoughts about authentic discipleship

Let’s play a theological version of “Jeopardy!” I’m going to give you an answer. Your challenge is to provide the question. So, here goes:

Answer: This person famously wrote, “I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them, and from a philosophical standpoint Christianity is not even the best.”

Question: ?????

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The list of famous atheists is long. There’s Voltaire and David Hume. Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, and Jean-Paul Sartre. More recently Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins have made headlines heaping contempt on the perceived intellectual flimsiness of religion.

It’s perfectly understandable if you named one of these thinkers or some other famous sceptic. But the correct answer is a young C. S. Lewis. Yes, that C. S. Lewis. The famous Christian author. The guy who gave us The Narnia Chronicles, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters and many more classics of the faith.

You may already know that Lewis converte…