Screwtape 22-25

Chapter 22: Everything has to be twisted before it's any use to us. We fight under cruel disadvantages. Nothing is naturally on our side.

   

 Chapter 23: Only today have I found a passage in a Christian writer where he recommends his own version of Christianity on the ground that 'only such a faith can outlast the death of old cultures and the birth of a new civilizations'. You see the little rift? 'Believe this, not because it is true, but for some other reason.' That's the game.

   

Chapter 24: He has no notion how much in him is forgiven because they are charitable and made the best of because he is now one of the family. He does not dream how much of his conversation, hom many of his opinions, are recognised by them all as mere echoes of their own. Still less does he suspect how much of the delight he takes in these people is due to the erotic enhancement which the girl, for him, spreads over all her surroundings.

   

Chapter 25: We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain - not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.