Today's Reading
On faith
It is a profound mistake [to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror],
the sense of our own nothingness,
which come upon
us /when we think about the nature of things.
It comes to intensify them.
* it = the sense of our own nothingness
* them = the nature of things
Without such sensations there is no religion.
[Many a man],
brought up in
the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity,
who comes
through reading Astronomy to realise for the first time how majestically
indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his
religion on that account,
may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.
* [Many a man]... may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.
형역분사구/삽입구 brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity,
삽입절/형절 who comes~, and who perhaps abandons~
From Miracles
Compiled in Words to Live By
Miracles: A Preliminary Study. Copyright 1947 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1947 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Revised 1960, restored 1996 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
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