C.S. Lewis on Paganism
Surprised by Joy (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1955), 235.
With the irreligious I was no longer concerned; their view of life was
henceforth out of court. As against them, the whole mass of those who
have worshiped — all who had danced and sung and sacrificed and
trembled and adored — were clearly right. But the intellect and
conscience, as well as the orgy and the ritual, must be our guide.
There could be no question of going back to primitive, untheologized
and unmoralized, Paganism. The God whom I had at last acknowledged was
one, and was righteous. Paganism had been only the childhood of
religion, or only a prophetic dream. Where was the thing full grown? or
where was the awakening?
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