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dedl67

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4. C. S. Lewis understood well how religion can be misused

Reply to MagaSmash (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2025, 05:35 PM

Jun 23

C. S. Lewis, in his “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” has Screwtape, assistant to Satan, in his address to Tempters College, describe how ‘Religion’, as it has come to be practiced by many, has served Satan:

“All said and done, my friends, it will be an ill day for us if what most humans mean by ‘Religion’ ever vanishes from the Earth. It can still send us the truly delicious sins. Nowhere do we tempt so successfully as on the very steps of the altar.”

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