Status Updates From The Problem of Pain

I was today years old when I realized his first and middle name are Clive and Staples 😭 bless his heart but I see why he went by C.S. Lewis 💀 (Thankfully his writing is wayyyyy better than his name, even if my brain isn’t comprehending half of it)

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“…we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“The thesis of this chapter is simply that man, as a species, spoiled himself, and that good, to us in our present state, must therefore mean primarily remedial or corrective good.”