“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth” - C.S. Lewis Some more recalcitrant atheists say that Christianity is mere wish fulfillment. Bronze-age peasants must have made up heaven and a long-haired hunky savior to ward off their fears of rotting in their graves, they claim. I, a former agnostic, am here to report that I had wish fulfillment of the opposite sort: I wished the whole Christian story wasn’t true.
Excellent.
Herein, FWIW, is another conversion story, that also touches on philosophy, just: https://frwah.substack.com/p/solemnity-of-the-most-holy-trinity?utm_campaign=reaction&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=post