The greatest achievement of wishful thinking

[soso]

[One reason //why many people find Creative Evolution so attractive] is that it gives one much of the emotional comfort

of believing in God and none of the less pleasant consequences.

When you are feeling fit and the sun is shining and you do not want to believe that the whole universe is a mere mechanical dance of atoms, it is nice to be able to think of this great mysterious Force /rolling on through the centuries

and carrying you on its crest.

If, on the other hand, you want to do something rather shabby, the Life-Force, being only a blind force,

with no morals and no mind, will never interfere with you like that troublesome God () we learned about

/when we were children.

The Life-Force is a sort of tame God.

You can switch it on /when you want, but it will not bother you.

* it = The Life-Force

All the thrills of religion and none of the cost.

Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking () the world has yet seen?


* INTERFERE WITH : prevent something from happening in correct way; handle or change something and spoil it;
* (you want) All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. 






From Mere Christianity
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

Mere Christianity. Copyright © 1952, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1980, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.