C. S. Lewis Quotes
There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963, Carl Staples Lewis, English Author, The Great Divorce, 1944
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Jefferson was a deist but had little love for the organized religions and did not consider the Bible as the revealed word of God.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Some of the founding fathers were deeply religious men while others were not so. Some varied in their believes at different times of their lives, and a number were not very favorable towards orthodox religion. At the time, Roman Catholic and Protestant churches were persecuting other religions throughout Europe and people were still being killed for their “heretical” beliefs. Most important to some of them, kings and other monarchs whom they abhorred, all at the time claimed the Divine Right of Kings and the established churches were the most important support for monarchs. At the time most organized religions were opposed to freedom of conscience and certainly opponents of separation of church and state. American churches tended to take on American values but were never given the chance to dominate the American government they way many religions had in Europe and the rest of the world.
This church which was so active later in sending missionaries throughout the world, at first thought the idea absurd.
Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
