I have an elderly acquaintance of about eighty, who has lived a life of
unbroken selfishness and self-admiration from the earliest years, and is,
more or less, I regret to say, one of the happiest men I know. From the
moral point of view it is very difficult!...As you perhaps know, I haven't
always been a Christian. I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I
always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make
you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.
C.S. Lewis, "God in the Dock, Essays on Theology and Ethics" Grand Rapids, Eerdmans 1970 pp.58-59.
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