So i just started to reread C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters (i started it last time i was at Emily's). Anyway, he starts the book off with a couple of qoutes...
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yielf to texts of csripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
Luther
The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.
Thomas Moore
So i have two questions; first, what is their foundation for this presumption; and second, let's assume it could be true, why would it be true? Well, and i guess a third question, how would you go about doing it? A "mock the devil" party just doesn't seem like a good idea.
2 comments:
I don't think anyone particularly likes to be mocked, ridiculed or disrespected--like on SVU last night, the punishment for being disrespectful is death. We have to choose who/what to respect and by doing so, we also choose what to disrespect.
I have not read this book - sounds like I need to before I comment.
Interesting note - CS Lewis quoting Luther.
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