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<\/a><\/div>\nThanks for all the comments and questions that you\u2019ve left on my Monday post on my attraction to G.K. Chesterton\u2019s Orthodoxy<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0I\u2019m working my way through them and I anticipate that will be my main source of inspiration for posts this week and possibly next if your questions continue. \u00a0So here goes\u2026<\/p>\n Matt asked a question that was aimed at the heart of my post:<\/p>\n It\u2019s weird to me that someone would use theology to substantiate their own claims about the world. Wouldn\u2019t you use investigation and reason to substantiate those claims?<\/p>\n In other words, reason and empirical investigation are \u201ctruth-telling\u201d things, and they directly conflict with theological claims. I\u2019m surprised to read an atheist that values Lewis for anything other than his literary prowess. He was an absolutely horrid apologetic and most of his arguments were riddled with logical fallacies and faulty premises. His \u201cthree L\u2019s\u201d argument should be mandatory in any introduction to logical fallacies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ok. So I\u2019m not going to defend C.S. Lewis\u2019s Mad, Bad, or God trichotomy<\/a>, which I also don\u2019t find logically compelling. \u00a0I\u2019m going to return later this week to the question (which others have asked) about what<\/em>\u00a0specifically about Lewis\u2019s world view attracts me (in the meantime, check out the posts tagged C.S. Lewis<\/a>). \u00a0What I want to address is Matt\u2019s claim that empiricism and rationality are intrinsically opposed to and a negation of theological thinking.<\/p>\n