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CS Lewis was not an atheist; he was a well-known Christian apologist.

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Due to certain circumstances when he was young- such as the untimely death of his mother, CS Lewis did go through a period of several years where he readily admits he was an atheist. In his pursuit to find meaning in life, he eventually became a theist and eventually a Christian. He himself said:

"Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable." -- Mere Christianity

"...I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." -- Surprised by Joy

Those quotes alone tell me that he became a Christian not as a blind sheep, but as a thinking man who found logic had led him where he never expected it to take him.

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