After reading the first three chapters of the Screwtape letters, we are introduced to the 'Devil' Screwtape and his nephew Wormwood. It was a confusing read at first, but after reading it again you understand the way that Screwtape is trying to have his nephew encourage his patient away from Heaven and into Hell. However, when the patient wants to become a Christian Screwtape assures Wormwood that many people have been 'saved' from becoming Christians. He warns his nephew to tell the patient of the faults of being Christian to sway him from Heaven. Wormwood is then told by his uncle to cause conflict between the patient and the patient's mother. He also tries to find any little thing wrong with their relationship to sway him away and closer to the 'perks' of hell. I feel that it is too early in the reading to understand the true underlying conflict that the Devil is trying to convey to his nephew. I feel that Screwtape is so uneasy about the patient wanting to convert to Christianity is because they are able to indulge in the truth. Christians have the clarity of thought to cut through the devil’s ways in a straightforward way that is intimidating to him.
2 comments:
After reading your blog this book makes a lot more sense to me now. I completely see where it is coming from, and sorta what is going on better in the book. The fact that Satan is helping to get this patient away from Christianity was sort of amusing to me. It seems to follow Satan as you would think would take a lot of changing on anyones part.
I agree that at first it is a confusing read. The way it is written confused me at first because it was not very clear on to where the story was going. I also agree that that it seems as though it is going to play out as it goes further into detail. The fact that the devil is concerned because Christians do have that clarity of knowing the truth makes a lot of sense to me.
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