This was just one of many fleeting thoughts. In the movie Shadowlands which I was watching again the charachter of CS Lewis is called a lapsed atheist, and it made me think deeply about the proverb that I had always accepted as fact which is that if you train up a child a certain way he will return to it. But, C.S.Lewis was not merely Christian as a lapse, but would never return to his earlier belief. I instantly thought, "well, of course Christianity is true and he found it, that proverb only applies to those who were taught lies and only momentarily in their life get side-tracked in a search for more." But I have all thoughts tempered by my inner Plato who asks uh, this scripture is generally used to soothe the worried minds of parents who strived to teach their children of God but, despite this, they "lapse" in their path and seek truth elsewhere. These parents find consolation knowing that their "way ward child" will return.
My back hurts.... Must rest.
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