"there are very few people who would say they don't care if what they believe is real or not."
"One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
- C.S. Lewis defends religion (and genre literature while he's at it).
That's the thing, Rakuen. How can you be a furry and be so down on the irrational? We deal exclusively in what isn't, what hasn't been and what won't. We both have recently looked at the same piece of art; one of us saw life, the other saw death.
I saw a fox tonight. I don't know what that means, but I know that means something.
"there are very few people who would say they don't care if what they believe is real or not."
"One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
- C.S. Lewis defends religion (and genre literature while he's at it).
That's the thing, Rakuen. How can you be a furry and be so down on the irrational? We deal exclusively in what isn't, what hasn't been and what won't. We both have recently looked at the same piece of art; one of us saw life, the other saw death.
I saw a fox tonight. I don't know what that means, but I know that means something.