C. Benjamin's review
The Screwtape Letters (Gift Edition)
by C.S. Lewis
C. Benjamin's review
The Screwtape Letters (Gift Edition) by C.S. Lewis
C. Benjamin's review
rating:
bookshelves:
have-read
recommended for: The impressionable
Here's the thing. I think that C.S. Lewis was an intelligent man with a gift for writing, which in itself would merit several "stars" on some internet scale. I think that this book, however, is complete and total bollocks. Not because it's poorly written, or unimaginative, but because I think that it perpetuates and makes "understandable" an assumption that I think is as dangerous as it is a cop out: that we are all glorified meat puppets at the mercy of an all-loving God (who nonetheless flooded the earth, will send you to eternal torture if you don't kiss his ring, commanded the violend and brutal death of disobedient children...) and The Devil, who from what I have read of Christian mythos is simply God in a more consistently good mood.
This book, to me, is as I so elequently stated, "bollocks," because I read it as simply one of the better-written and marginally more ingenious versions of the oft-penned Christian "my-sin-made-me-do-it" ...more
This book, to me, is as I so elequently stated, "bollocks," because I read it as simply one of the better-written and marginally more ingenious versions of the oft-penned Christian "my-sin-made-me-do-it" ...more
