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Ep. 5: The Greatest Intellectual of the 20th Century

Young Heretics

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The Kind of Conversion That Lewis Has Is Not a Conversion

Lewis was somebody who did believe that it was rational and reasonable to believe in god, but he did not get kind of convinced of god by some kind of proof. The kind of conversion that he had was much more about the way that he thought it was good and and accurate to see the world. In many casest the last conversion you would you would ever expect am evil in was maybe the classic example of these modernist authors suddenly turning round and saying, actually, you know, the worldKind of needs god. Andi dwell on this. I point this out because this kind of thing can happen right in moments when entire civilization's entire populations are kind of moving in the direction of despair

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