So it always bugs me when people talk like this...

There are, of course, objections to theism that are, well, I don't want to say valid, of course, but worth discussing. Not silly, I mean. But some are definitely just silly. When re-reading Mere Christianity, I came across Lewis's response to one of the sillier, and thought I'd post it here.

There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of 'Heaven' ridiculous by saying they do not want 'to spend eternity playing harps.' The answer to such people is that if they cannot undersand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them. All the scriptural imagery is, of course, a merely symbolical attempt to express the inexpressible. Musical instruments are mentioned because for many people (not all) music is the thing kown in the present life which most strongly suggests ecstasy and infinity. . . . People who take these symbols literally might as well think that when Christ told us to be like doves, He meant that we were to lay eggs.