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The Argument from Desire by C.S. Lewis

In Mere Christianity , C.S. Lewis sought to reason his way to God’s existence by offering Christians his Argument from Desire. As he put it:  Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for these desires exists. A baby feels hunger; well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim; well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire; well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ( Mere Christianity , Bk. III, chap. 10, "Hope") Christian apologist Peter Kreeft explains that this argument can only be understood by first noting the difference between natural desires (for things like food, sex, and beauty) and artificial desires (for things like cars, political office, and the Land of Oz). [i] Kreeft also explains that “the natural desires come from within, from our nature, while (artificial desires)

The God of the Lens

We are in love with the God of the lens. A God we created, and continue to create, in our own image. That God is as infinite as we are because we made it in the image and likeness of ourselves.  To put it another way, we have become Narcissus, and fallen in love with our own reflection in the lens of technology. The camera lens, to be more specific, which sees all and records all, was once something that people initially shied away from whenever they saw it. Today, however, half of us will reflexively undress as soon as we notice its presence.  We adore it in the hope that "it" (meaning all those who see us through it once our video goes viral on the internet) will adore us back. To the masses, we video blog our thoughts to its ever eager ears and eyes, as if we were praying to the mind of God himself. And in a way, we are. It quite literally flashes our life before our eyes, but not simply at our moment of death, but rather, at our moment of birth, and for every moment i