This is the first book that I would use to introduce Christianity to a atheist or secular humanist. It has a very scientific and historical case for the Christian faith using the logical pathways of an atheist.
Also, as a person trying to be a better "little Christ" as Lewis puts it, I strengthened my faith and desire for Christ by reading this book. Being a Christian is not outdated, old-fashioned, or simplistic. It is difficult, and requires a great deal of willpower and brainpower while at the same time being easy. Christianity is no 48 day or 12 week program. It takes a lifetime and an eternal one at that.
Highly recommended for atheists, non-Christians, and Christians alike.
One of my favorite sections was on page 222:
"Again and again [the world] has thought Christianity was dying by persecutions from without and corruptions from within, by the rise of [Islam], the rise of the physical sciences, the rise of great anti-Christian revolutionary movements. But every time the world has been disappointed. Its first disappointment was over the crucifixion. The Man came to life again. In a sense - and I realise how frightfully unfair it must seem to them - that has been happening ever since. They keep on killing the thing that He started: and each time, just as they are patting down the earth on its grave, they suddenly hear it is still alive and has broken out in some new place. No wonder they hate us."
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