Analytic essay of "What Christians believe" by C.S. Lewis

This essay is on what beliefs Christians hold vs. other religions, and what the difference in those outlooks is.

 I would say that the essay is informational non-fiction, since its purpose is to enlighten others to why he, C.S. Lewis, stopped being an atheist. The main body of the essay is on how if you believe in god, you know that all other religions aren’t completely wrong, they’re just mostly wrong. The first paragraph focuses on breaking the view points of the world into separate camps; which are, if you believe in a deity, or you believe that one doesn’t exist.

From there, it breaks it down into Christian vs. religions such as Hindu. The major differences are the Hindu believe in a multitude of gods, Christian type religions only one. It then breaks one god religions into two other sub-sets, pantheism; god is beyond evil, and god is good; which is the view of Muslims, Jews, and Christians. The difference between the two is, while a Pantheist would look at a slum and say, “If you look at it from the divine perspective you would see god, for he is in everything.” A Christian would say, “Don’t talk dammed nonsense.” Lewis then goes on to say that his arguments against there being a god were based on the fact that the universe seemed so unjust, but then he says that how did he know the difference between just and unjust if the universe was naturally an unjust place.

C.S Lewis does a remarkable job laying out his argument, and how he ends is a note on how some people say that while Christ was an extremely moral person, he wasn’t Christ, to which Lewis builds a small argument pointing out how this argument is fallacy. In all, C.S. Lewis does a bash-up job of proving his case with logic as to why there is a just, singular deity.