Hello Spirit Lovers. At Saturdays meeting we’ll be picking up The Screwtape Letters at letter 18.
In Letter 18:
“The Enemy’s [God’s] demand on humans takes the form of a dilemma; I either complete abstinence or unmitigated monogamy. Ever since our Father’s (Satan’s) first great victory, we have rendered the former very difficult to them."
Later in the same letter, "He aims at contradiction. Things are to be many, yet somehow also one. The good of one self is to be the good of another. This impossibility he calls love."
In Letter 19
If he believes "Love is both irresistible and somehow intrinsically meritorious... it can be used to steer the patient into a useful marriage.... there must be several young women in your patient's neighborhood who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them". Does Lewis expose a somewhat cynical view of marriage in this comment?
In letter 21
"Now you will have noticed that nothing throws him into a passion so easily as to find a tract of time which he reckons on having had at his own disposal unexpectedly taken from him.” Oh, my gosh! He has never even met me!
See you on Saturday
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