Meaning
Questioning Christianity with Tim Keller
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Meaninglessness Breaks In
- C.S. Lewis argues that if life is merely a product of evolutionary biology, the meaninglessness can disrupt even simple joys.
- One might try to find pleasure in love or art, but the awareness of their fleeting, accidental nature intrudes.
- The beauty of a person becomes a "momentary and accidental pattern produced by the collision of atoms."
- Enjoyment of music becomes an "irrational conditioning" of the nervous system.
- True warmth and joy reveal the "hopeless disharmony" between our emotions and a meaningless universe.
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