Lewis’s continuing commitment to atheism in the 1920s was grounded in his belief that it was right, a “wholesome severity,”[9] even though he admitted that it offered a “grim and meaningless” view of life. He took the view that atheism’s intellectual rectitude trumped its emotional and existential inadequacy. Lewis did not regard atheism as liberating or exciting; he seems simply to have accepted it, without enthusiasm, as the thinking person’s only intellectual option—a default position, without any particular virtues or graces. Yet during the 1920s, Lewis reconsidered his attitude towards
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