C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters: How a Movie Version Could Help Us Understand Modern Evil
By Gregoriancant, published Jan 24, 2008
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For those who haven't read it--it deals with a minion of Satan himself (Screwtape) who writes a series of letters to his nephew (the famously-named Wormwood) who's currently trying to bedevil the life of a man living in WWII England. These letters give a rundown of exactly how to tempt Wormwood's "Patient" to the dark side. The most haunting aspect to it is that it shows exactly how most people in the world's past (and our present time) end up losing their sense of meaning and faith by micro temptations rather than anything large in the case of the most heinous crimes we generally think of first. Today, we can see little temptations in the world that frequently turn into a behemoth--whether that be something you watch in the media or buy or just accidentally encounter. It can frequently start in political thought, too, or a particular situation that arises in the world that indirectly affects people. Everything small eventually connects into a larger worldview that can affect someone's core principles.
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