“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon aa universe in which every trace of
Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”-C.S Lewis, The
Screwtape Letters. The Screwtape Letters are about the uncle sending his nephew tips on how to stop a person’s, whom they call patient, faith and divert their attention from God. The Screwtape Letter help readers recognize Satan’s deception for three reasons by showing not thinking of Christian things can help plummet someone’s faith, war has advantages along with disadvantages, and friending non-
Christian can be risky without strong faith.
The…show more content… The history of Christianity is greatly handled with great caution as Wormwood would try to stop his patient from thinking about it, and instead he would try to get his patient to think about the ugliness and imperfection of his family. That way Wormwood can encourage his patient to focus his thinking on vice, imperfection, reject piety, and the material realm. The second reason why Lewis’s writing helps readers recognize Satan’s deception is war. War can be both good or bad for devil’s cause. War can encourage people to start liking the deaths of others, it also fills them with pride about from their promotions and survival. War can also imprint fear into people in the possibility of dying, therefore they will start to behave morally, and they start to lean towards God because of that fear.
The third reason why Lewis’s writing helps readers recognize Satan’s deception is friending non-
Christians can turn into an advantage. The patient befriended some people who continually mock
Christianity and that turned into an opportunity for Wormwood and Screwtape. Wormwood
