"If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western
Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are,
comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think
God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself
whether you think God ought to have been content with the
cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or
chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility.
From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us,
you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and
timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must
look to God".
C. S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
.
Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are,
comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think
God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself
whether you think God ought to have been content with the
cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or
chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility.
From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us,
you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and
timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must
look to God".
C. S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
.
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