Mere Christianity Analysis

C.S. Lewis wrote the book Mere Christianity, where he based his knowledge and ideas of religion and God. In the video, we begin by not learning about what Christians believe; rather, what Christians do not need to believe. We learn, that Christians do not need to believe that every other religion is wrong. On the contrary, atheists, must believe that all of the worldwide religions and their beliefs are a mistake; in other words, they must believe that everything these religions teach are wrong. However, if you are Christian, you are free to think oppositely to the beliefs of an atheist. Furthermore, as a Christian, you are able to freely think that some, or all, of the other religions contain at least a small hint of the actual truth. On the
However, some of the wrong answers are much closer to the answer than others.
Next, we learn about the two major divisions between humanity when it comes to religion. The first major division between humanity is due to the beliefs in God. The majority of humanity believe in some kind of God or multiple gods. On the contrary side humanity, they do not believe in any God or gods. Christianity falls in the majority along with believing in a God. Other religions or groups that fall on the side of the majority include ancient Greeks, Romans, modern savages, Stoics, Hindus, Mohammedans, and many others. The other side on the minority tend to be the Western European materialists. The second major division of humanity is between the people who believe in God, they are divided based upon the beliefs of their God or gods. The first group believes that God lays beyond good and evil. In addition, the belief says that good and bad is seen from a human point of view, or a wisdom scale. It is believed that the wiser you become, and the closer you get to divine, the less you wish to see things as good or bad. From the video, they use the example of cancer. For
asked a question, if God had made the world good, why had it gone bad? He first argued that it would be easier to accept the atheist beliefs; however, he later decided against it. He believed that the world seemed unjust, but he wondered where he had gotten the ideas of just and unjust from. “A man does not call a line crooked, unless he has some idea of a straight line”. He concludes with the fact that if the universe had no meaning, they should have never found out that the it has no