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here’s an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’ fictional work, The Screwtape Letters for your contemplation…
(so you will know what’s going on…)
writer= Screwtape (a demon)
to= Wormwood (his apprentice)
patient= a human
the enemy= God
our father= the devil

“You are much more likely to make your man a sound drunkard by pressing drink on him as an anodyne when he is dull and weary then by encouraging him to use it as a means of merriment among his friends when he is happy and expansive. Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s ground. Although we have won many a soul through pleasure, all the same, it is His invention, not ours. The Enemy made the pleasures: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, in incorrect ways, or in an excessive obsessive way. Hence we always try to work away from the natural condition of any pleasure to that in which it is least natural, least redolent of its Maker, and least pleasurable. An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula. To get the man’s soul and give him nothing in return - that is what really gladdens our Father’s heart.”

– C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

hmmmmm…. interesting. i’ve heard some that would disagree with mr. c.s. lewis on some points of this theory. what do you think?

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