re: Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis 1942

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I recommend “The Abolition of Man.”

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I've read Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters and The Problem of Pain. I'll have to pick up The Abolition of Man.

The Problem of Pain is highly recommended too. It's short. Like 100 pages. But Lewis' packs so much in one sentence it reads like a 500 page textbook. He makes you ponder hard.

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Where Tolkien would read sections of books he was working on and C.S. Lewis would cry out in exasperation, "Oh God, not another elf!"

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Well supposedly they had some pretty heated exchanges. Many a pub pie and ale were tossed.

More pantheist but not an atheist.

Just a thought, if you haven't already, give his book 'Mere Christianity' a read....might be interesting to you. Good post.

I love C.S. Lewis. I studied him extensively in college. As a Reformed Christian, his writings are a glimpse into my faith and worldview.

However, he did not write that and it is not part of the Screwtape Letters, even though it is in that style.

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I don't get all of this Satan would do this horrible thing or do that horrible thing.

The smartest thing Satan would do would be to build the best godless society that he could. You're not saved by bank accounts or works. If you're godless you go to hell. How better to trick someone by making it seem like their lifestyle is working out so well without God?

He doesn't need angst, frustration, general disdain, lack of charity, lack of inner peace, etc. Huge personal issues cause people to seek change. If they're already godless, that change, at least for some, could be seeking God.

I don't think the screwtape letters are all that great.

Can anyone verify is this is even C.S. Lewis?

I googled it and it doesn't look to be.

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Why do atheist feel so compelled to insert their views on this into discussions with, at best, parenthetical relevance?

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Could not the same be said of Christians?

I see it all the time around here. A forceful insertion of no relevance. Often conjoining and conflating two separate virtues as if one depends on the other, namely, religion and morality.

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Could not the same be said of Christians? I see it all the time around here. A forceful insertion of no relevance. Often conjoining and conflating two separate virtues as if one depends on the other, namely, religion and morality.

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Yeah, it's like the son of God commissioned all of them to spread the news or something.

"the Patient"

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”