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The start of my journey, reading christian apologetics. Same as you — I’ve grown up believing it was shameful for educated people to be publicly religious or anything else incompatible with e.g. rationalism and skepticism. Just like you — since I was very young, I think about questions like what is the nature of reality, the purpose/meaning of life, etc. Just like everyone — I ignored that theologians and religious people have been thinking about the same questions for the last 5,000 years(?), gathering an impressive body of knowledge and probably concluded something useful.

In a way, it feels like the book was set up for failure from the start, as it attempts something overly ambitious: to make a rational case for Christian faith and explain Christianity from first principles, its morals but also the harder stuff like the supernatural, God, the nature of reality, and so on. It’s a magnificent effort, though, and I felt expanded after finishing it. I knew about C.S. Lewis’ work for children (e.g. Chronicles of Narnia) but was unaware he also wrote philosophy. After reading this book, I definitely want to read the rest of his work. Just when I was feeling satisfied towards the end and thinking “Yeah, ok — I got it”, the book ends with a surprising suggestion related to evolution, which I’ve never seen written anywhere else.