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The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis
by C.S. Lewis
(written 11/02)
This was basically a big game of reversing everything around to the perspective of a devil, who delights in our demise. The premise was exciting, even in letter form, but I quickly tired of it. Lewis's staunchly Christian viewpoint is very well-argued (though still not enough to convince me of the actual existence of hell & it's "devils," even metaphorically). I found the following quotes fun to roll around in my brain though.
praying "not to what I think thou art but to what thou knowest theyself to be." 30
"Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!" 80
(This is reminiscent of Codrescu's Life and Times when the man decides he owns nothing, not even his body.)
This was basically a big game of reversing everything around to the perspective of a devil, who delights in our demise. The premise was exciting, even in letter form, but I quickly tired of it. Lewis's staunchly Christian viewpoint is very well-argued (though still not enough to convince me of the actual existence of hell & it's "devils," even metaphorically). I found the following quotes fun to roll around in my brain though.
praying "not to what I think thou art but to what thou knowest theyself to be." 30
"Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!" 80
(This is reminiscent of Codrescu's Life and Times when the man decides he owns nothing, not even his body.)
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Oct 03, 2012 03:41am
C S Lewis will be one of my all time favorites in the content and delivery of the subtle and profound messages he wrote. One thing that always traverse my thought from reading this "intended" letter written to his good friend J R R Tolkien is Screwtape's cunning advice to his apprentice wormwood to never let the person dwell in the "Present". People are sorry and regretful of their pasts and fearful of their future. But the "Present" the moment called "Now" is something which always touch "Eternity" and is to be robbed off from the person and let him/her dwell either in the past or the apprehension of the future....wowz, this is so powerful indeed!
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