The Unexpected Ambush of Poetry against Unbelief

From Doug Wilson’s review of the introduction of Peter Hitchens’s The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith, quoting Hitchens:

As for Christopher’s atheism, “As long as he can convince himself, nobody else will persuade him” (p. 12). This is, in my judgment, quite right, along with another observation that Peter makes about the vulnerability of the atheist. As C.S. Lewis once commented, God is very unscrupulous, and leaves traps everywhere. One of those traps is poetry — atheism can be “countered by the unexpected force of poetry, which can ambush the human heart at any time” (p. 12).

Justin Taylor