a little tid-bit

I read this book a while ago, but just stumbled upon this quote again today.  Thought I'd share.  God and Shakespeare. Oh yea.

"When a Russian cosmonaut returned from space and reported that he had not found God, C.S. Lewis responded that this was like Hamlet going into the attic of his castle looking for Shakespeare. If there is a God, he wouldn't be another object in the universe that could be put in a lab and analyzed with empirical methods. He would relate to us the way a playwright relates to the characters in his play. We (characters) might be able to know quite a lot about the playwright, but only to the degree the author chooses to put information about himself in the play. Therefore, in no case would we "prove" God's existence as if he were an object wholly within the universe like oxygen and hydrogen or an island in the Pacific. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote *himself* in the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead. He is the one with whom we have to do."