'Again and again it has been thought Christianity was dying, dying by persecutions from without and corruptions from within, by the rise of Mohammedanism, the rise of the physical sciences, the rise of great anti-Christian revolutionary movements. But every time the world has been disappointed. Its first disappointment was over the crucifixion. The Man came to life again. In a sense - and I quite realise how frightfully unfair it must seem to them - that has been happening ever since. They keep on killing the thing that He started: and each time, just as they are down the earth on its grave, they suddenly hear that it is still alive and has even broken out in some new place. No wonder they hate us...'
CS Lewis, Mere Christianity, p.222.
