Navigating Morality in a Fraught World
Near the end of Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis includes a chapter called “Two Notes,” a very brief chapter which essentially offers two long footnotes to the previous chapter, which is called “The Obstinate Toy Soldiers.” The first note explores why God created humans as toy soldiers and not as sons; Lewis answers that it had to be this way, but I’ll let you read how he presents his case. The second note concerns how humans are connected to one another and yet different. “Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.