C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters – 19 & 20

the line between attraction, affection, and the multiple uses of the word “love” is impossible to sort out. The goal of the demons is to take this situation and mold it and use it to draw us away from God. Instead of sexual attraction being the building block of a deeper more intimate relationship that comes to mirror God’s relationship with humanity, it simply becomes its own end.

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The Screwtape Letters – 13 & 14

This week, we are reading through and discussing letters 13-16 of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. Letter 13 – Small Pleasures: In this letter, Screwtape berates Wormwood for allowing the Patient to experience a spiritual renewal or second conversion. As a result, an “asphyxiating cloud” has enveloped the Patient preventing any spiritual attacks to come

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