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"A timeless classic on 'Hell's latest novelties and Heaven's unanswerable answer."
"A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to 'Our Father Below.' At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in char ...more
"A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to 'Our Father Below.' At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in char ...more
As others have indicted this is essentially a book on demonology or how evil preys upon you. It's both startling and illuminating. It is typically not the major issues or sins that cause one to be lead into the abyss it is akin to a 1000 paper cuts. At little false humility, causal glances and which ultimately lead to despair. Despair is like being ensnared in a black widow's web, easy to be eaten slowly. In almost all of these cases it is we who do the heavy lifting into the abyss for the enemy
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