Man or Rabbit?

"'Can't you lead a good life without believing in Christianity?'" That is the question that Lewis tackles in this chapter. Throughout this excerpt, he gives several great responses to this question. One is "If Christianity should happen to be true, then it is quite impossible that those who know this truth and those who don't should be equally well equipped for leading a good life. Knowledge of the facts must make a difference to one's actions." He then goes on to explain how if a man was starving, you might give him a big meal that could kill him. Even though you were only trying to help, but because you did not know the facts, you ended up doing harm instead of good. Without the facts, we are "in the dark," and our endeavors are bound to end poorly.
Lewis also says "He is deliberately trying not to know whether Christianity is true or false, because he foresees endless trouble if it should turn out to be true....You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Chrsitian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand." I like how Lewis directly confronts those people who are aware of Christianity, think it may be true, but are too lazy and complacent to find out. Instead, they try to avoid the issue, "to evade of the Son of God," hoping that being a 'good' person will be enough to get them into Heaven if such a place exists. Lewis basically calls them cowards, because men at least take the time to learn and discern whether or not something is true instead of avoiding issue entirely.
Finally, I think my favorite part is when Lewis says: "The people who keep on asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for....in setting up 'a good life' as our final goal, we have missed the very point of our existence." That just really resonates with me. It is just hammers home why being a good person is not enough. Being a good person is not the point. It is not what we were made for.