C.S. Lewis really nails this one.... kind of fits with the earlier Buechner quote... this also explains a lot of the "spirit" of many internet atheists.
Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace
but to knowledge. When a man is getting better he understands more and
more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting
worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man
knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake,
not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your
mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see
them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober,
not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil: bad
people do not know about either.
From Mere Christianity
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