The Screwtape Letters Essay
John Lennon once said, “It’s easy to live with your eyes closed,” Lennon makes a valid point, for if people were always neutral about the life they chose to lead, no progress would ever be made. C.S Lewis took it upon himself to write a novel that talks about the choices humans have, and who is there whispering in our ears. He wants every human to take action on their life, and to never follow the leader blindly. In The Screwtape Letters we see the choices humans have put into action. Falling in love, the way we choose to treat our religion, and our own free will put into words. When the Patient starts to fall in love, Screwtape is not happy. Of course, it would have been grand if the Patient had fallen in love with someone that was just, not up to Christian standards. C.S Lewis is telling us that love is a wonderful thing, when you fall in love with the right person. We decide whether our love will be good, or bad. The Father Below, as Screwtape likes to call him, would not be happy with any pure love,
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Sometimes, people who are Christians just enjoy bragging they are Christians. “Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist’s shop,” (Lewis, C.S) Screwtape wants people to brag about their being a Christian, he makes it seem like when they are, they aren’t really believers. They begin to become high in air, and they misuse the purpose of their own religion. We would have to devote ourselves to our religion, and not let it become dull to us, “without noticing it, revolves endlessly round the little treadmill of his fifteen favorite psalms and twenty favourite lessons,” (Lewis, C.S) we should always study our religion, always be up to learning new things about it, and never letting it become just another part of our life, instead of something that stands out from the
Sometimes, people who are Christians just enjoy bragging they are Christians. “Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist’s shop,” (Lewis, C.S) Screwtape wants people to brag about their being a Christian, he makes it seem like when they are, they aren’t really believers. They begin to become high in air, and they misuse the purpose of their own religion. We would have to devote ourselves to our religion, and not let it become dull to us, “without noticing it, revolves endlessly round the little treadmill of his fifteen favorite psalms and twenty favourite lessons,” (Lewis, C.S) we should always study our religion, always be up to learning new things about it, and never letting it become just another part of our life, instead of something that stands out from the