Abandoning religion as religious experience (Lewis)
January 18th, 2008 | Published in Astronomy, Science, Quotes, Religion
Many a man, brought up in the glib professional of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realise for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.
–C. S. Lewis, Miracles (1947, revised in 1960), p. 81.