“Cuando os sentís tentados a no dejar que los problemas de otro os afecten porque no son «asunto vuestro», recordad que, aunque él es diferente de vosotros, forma parte del mismo organismo. Si olvidáis que pertenece al mismo organismo que vosotros os convertiréis en individualistas. Si olvidáis que es un órgano distinto de vosotros, si queréis suprimir las diferencias y hacer que toda la gente sea igual, os convertiréis en totalitarios. Pero un cristiano no debe ser ni un totalitario ni un individualista. Siento un enorme deseo de deciros —y supongo que vosotros sentís un enorme deseo de decírmelo a mí— cuál de estos dos errores es el peor. Ese es el demonio intentando tentarnos. Siempre envía errores al mundo por parejas, parejas de opuestos. Y siempre nos anima a dedicar mucho tiempo a pensar cuál de los dos es peor. ¿Comprendéis, naturalmente, por qué? Confía en que el disgusto mayor que os cause uno de los dos errores os atraiga gradualmente hacia el otro. Pero no nos dejemos engañar. Tenemos que mantener los ojos fijos en la meta y pasar por en medio de los dos errores. No nos importa nada más que eso en lo que respecta a cualquiera de los dos.”
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Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898. His mother was a devout Christian and made efforts to influence his beliefs. When she died in his early youth her influence waned and Lewis was subject to the musings and mutterings of his friends who were decidedly agnostic and atheistic. It would not be until later, in a moment of clear rationality that he first came to a belief in God and later became a Christian.
C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.
Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil. He intelligently saw Christianity as a necessary fact that could be seen clearly in science.
"Surprised by Joy" is Lewis's autobiography chronicling his reluctant conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931.