Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meani…

C. S. Lewis
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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