This is the kind of book that makes you see things in a new light, a book that augments your perspective and knowledge and leaves you feeling baffled at how much you didn't know and how much you just absorbed. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way. I'm half way through the book, but so far I'm further convinced that Jesus is my savior and that Christianity is right for me.

There is almost no real reason to even read the last chapter as this point really kills anything he might say in the last chapter anyway. Christianity is so often misunderstood, mostly due to media coverage and misconceptions about the people in the Church themselves. S. Lewis does not justify his explanations well enough - that there is not enough of a burden of proof that he has fulfilled. I also app However, it is unlike scientific laws in that it can be broken or ignored, and it is known intuitively, rather than through experimentation.C S Lewis, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, has been described as a modern descendant of John Bunyan and as possessing “the rare gift of being able to make righteousness readable”. How in whatever grotesque rhetorical contortion could that be construed as pursuing a GOOD thing in the wrong way? He then equates the human struggle with "living behind enemy lines" or in the enemy camp - after aiding and abeding that enemy if one realizes he/she is on the wrong side what does one have to do? While many feel that Christians are fools who believe in fairy tales, he shows just how much sense Christianity makes to those who choose to follow it.

Then you would look at it with the lens of trying to figure out what is wrong in almost every step along the way? This book Mere Christianity (published in 1953) was based on the transcript of the BBC radio broadcast that Lewis gave at Oxford during World War II (1941-1944). First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books — The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality — Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion. One day, just before they decided he was too crazy and chucked him out, they went round and he taught them a new song with lots and lots of chords in it. So, he argues that the religious view is better by appealing to what we know about the nature of mankind.

The work, with Lewis's arguments for God's existence in it, continued to be examined in scholarly circles. Now everyone who has been married in a church has made a public, solemn promise to stick to his (or her) partner till death.