In Mere Christianity, CS Lewis is attempting to appeal to the Fool's (the unbeliever) reason. He is making an attempt to evangelize and make the religion and faith more appealing to individuals who may be more intellectual than anything else. All throughout the book, he uses practical analogies to allow for a much simpler image of Christianity and what it looks like. For example, he discusses how a car is built to run on gasoline, and how without gasoline it would not run properly. Similarly, humans are made to run on God, and are unable to run properly on anything else. Further, God does not love humans because we are good, but rather, he makes us good because He loves us. It is much like the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but it is bright because the sun shines on it.
Do you think the use of analogies, either by lewis in general, appeal to one's reason? Are they effective in potentially getting a person to believe in the same things you do?
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