In this Christmas sermon, originally published just after the end of World War II, C.S. Lewis describes a reality that seems strangely similar to today.

From Crosswalk. A 77-year-old magazine article by C.S. Lewis is receiving renewed attention in American culture for its discussion of a world that does not know right from wrong and that seems — at least to some readers — as a prophetic column about 2023 society.

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The article, A Christmas Sermon for Pagans, was published in 1946 by the British publication Strand Magazine …

Lewis asserted that there are three kinds of people in the world: “those who are sick and don’t know it (the post-Christians),” “those who are sick and know it (Pagans),” and “those who have found the cure” (Christians).

For the post-Christian, he wrote, “There is no objective Right or Wrong: each race or class can invent its own code or ‘ideology’ just as it pleases.” …

“If there is no real Wrong and Right, nothing good or bad in itself, none of these ideologies can be better or worse than another,” he wrote. …

“All over the world (even in Japan, even in Russia), men and women will meet on December 25th to do what is a very old-fashioned and, if you like, a very Pagan thing — to sing and feast because a God has been born,” Lewis wrote. “You are uncertain whether it is more than a myth. Well, if it is, then our last hope is gone. But is the opposite explanation not worth trying? Who knows but that here, and here alone, lies your way back not only to Heaven but to Earth too, and to the great human family whose oldest hopes are confirmed by this story that does not die?”

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(Excerpt from Crosswalk. Photo Credit: Aronsyne — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)