Mere Christianity

 Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2001.

Author C.S Lewis is a profound Christian author who hosted radio shows in the United Kingdom that discussed religion as a whole and specifically Christianity. The purpose of this book was to share with the readers the fundamentals of Christianity. Its purpose was not to cause debate about certain issues within Christianity, but rather a book that defends faith as a whole.

C.S Lewis in the chapter “The Three Parts of Morality”, goes into detail about his views on what morality truly is and what determines what and who are moral. He talks about how the everyday person views morals as a thing or an annoyance that keeps people from enjoying things or activities. While Lewis shows that morals are things that give humans a direction in life. He goes on to say that moral perfection is indeed impossible to achieve but it is in fact an ideal. And for each person has a different ‘ideal’ car, wife, house but there is only one moral ideal.

Lewis continues this chapter by showing the readers in what ways a human being can go wrong with their morals. First is by interfering with each other. By this he means if a person does harm to another, for example bullying, theft, or some other in which he offends or hurts another human. The next way is when things go wrong inside the human, something happens in which the human starts to act and think differently then before. This would cause the human to make careless and stupid decisions that indeed affect his overall behavior towards himself and others around him. Lewis uses an analogy to clarify his point. He uses a fleet of ships traveling to a destination. He says that the fleet of ships cannot crash into one another or the trip is a failure, but for the ships not to crash into one another the insides of the ships have to be working properly as well. This shows that being a moral person takes both parts and not one or the other. You need to have a...