{"id":2538,"date":"2026-09-21T12:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:09:39","slug":"c-s-lewis-god-in-the-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/21\/c-s-lewis-god-in-the-dock\/","title":{"rendered":"C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Radicalism of being a Self-precieved Victim<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good (justice) of its victims may be the most oppressive | but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good (justice) of its victims may be the most oppressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron&#8217;s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2606 but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be &#8220;cured&#8221; against one&#8217;s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This quote originates from the 1949 essay &#8220;The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment&#8221; later included in the collection God in the Dock: Essays on Theology. &#8211; Google AI Gemini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"C.S. Lewis\u2019 Most Powerful Quotes That Will Change Your Life Forever\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tv3mRoEEaOU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Radicalism of being a Self-precieved Victim Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good (justice) of its victims may be the most oppressive | but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. Of all tyrannies,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,14,40,74],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-anson-brown","tag-antichrist","tag-christian","tag-history","tag-jesus-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jesus-realm.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}