Luna del'Corvo

I confess I don't know too awfully much about Lewis himself, but I know he is largely thought of as a mostly harmless, but not terribly coherent goof in terms of serious theology.

As far as religion itself, I suppose that I see it do so much active harm in the world. Not from those small and wonderful handful of people who can be spiritual, even faithful, without feeling the compulsion to get everyone else in line, but from the slavering hordes who cannot simply live and let live. There will always be such folks, I suppose, but it's awfully hard to be a slavering horde when you're operating from evidence. As someone or another once said, "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion."

I'd so much rather take my chances in a secular society, than one saddled with the voluntary lack of reason required by religion. So I try to be an advocate, not attacking (usually; sometimes it seems warranted), but calmly offering a view of religion as a cultural artifact, to be appreciated without being obeyed. Results vary.... :)