![]() ![]() Screwtape, it seems, has done little to change his tactics between the War against Fascism and the War on Terror. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on to the stage at which the religion becomes merely part of the ‘Cause,’ in which Christianity is valued chiefly because of the excellent arguments it can produce in favour of the British war effort or of pacifism.” ![]() Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. “Whichever he adopts, your main task will be the same. ![]() Consider this passage from Letter VII, in which senior devil Screwtape advises his nephew Wormwood on whether it would be better to make his “patient”-the young man whom he is tempting-into a patriot or a pacifist. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters has lost none of its social relevance or power to convict. ![]()
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