Lesson 3 (ch 22-31) The Screwtape Letters Mrs. Stephanie Loomis Through the Lens with C.S. Lewis 2012-2013

1. TTL WITH C.S. LEWIS
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
ForgiveOCTOBER 2012
12 them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior
motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest
anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy
anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do
good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be
enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It
was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa

2. Your presentations

3. Ch 22
So! Your young man is in love…
Out at sea, out in His sea, there is pleasure,
and more pleasure.
What is God‟s purpose in

4. Silence and
Music p 170
Or NOISE!
For tomorrow, I know, all those Who girls and boys
Will wake bright and early. They'll rush for their toys!"
"And then...all the noise! All the noise, noise, noise, noise!
If there's one thing I hate...all the noise, noise, noise, noise!
And they'll shriek, squeak, and squeal racing round on their
wheels,
Then dance with jin-tinglers tied onto their heels!"
"They'll blow their flu-flubers, they'll bang their tar-tinkers,
They'll blow their hoo-hoovers, they'll bang their gar-dinkers!
They'll beat their trum-tookers, they'll slam their sloo-slunkers!
They'll beat their blum-blookers, they'll wham their hoo-
whunkers!"
"And they'll play noisy games, like Zoo-Zivver-Car-Zay,
A rollerskate-type of LaCrosse and croquet!

5. Ch 23
Theology, Politics, and Jesus
I find that the best point
of attack would be the
borderline between
theology and politics.
Several of his new
friends are very much
alive to the social
implications of their
religion…(171)

6. Jes
us
We thus distract men‟s minds
from who He is and what He did.
We first make Him solely a
teacher…besides being
unhistorical in the Jesus it
depicts, religion of this kind is
false to history in another sense.
No nation, and few individuals,
are really brought into the
Enemy‟s camp by the historical
study of the biography of
Jesus…The earliest converts
were converted by a single
historical fact (the Resurrection)
and a single theological doctrine
(the Redemption) operating on a
sense of sin they already had….

7. "Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way
we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all
sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain
commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs." (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit
451)

8. He must be made to feel…‟how different we Christians are‟;
and by „we Christians‟ he must really, but unknowingly,
mean „my set…. (174)
Chapter 24
Have you ever excluded someone (even without
meaning to) who didn‟t “belong”? Have you ever
been excluded because you didn‟t “belong”?

9. What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to
keep them in the state of mind I call „Christianity And.‟
(175) Chapter 25

10. Your greedy little soul is finally
satisfied with a diet drink ByTim Nudd
Is that all there is?
Diet drinks, like life, usually leave you wanting more. Not Coca-Cola Zero. It will satisfy even
the most obnoxiously hard-to-please soda drinker, according to Crispin Porter +
Bogusky's new spot, which launches this weekend and ushers in a new brand positioning
for the zero-calorie cola.
The commercial—running online as a :60 and on TV as a :30—follows a guy who ain't ever
satisfied from his youth into young adulthood. He doesn't want a plain cone; he wants it
loaded with candy. He isn't impressed by a skateboarding dog; he wants it to be Tony
Hawk. He bargains for more from potential employers, and a whole lot more from female
clerks at the clothing store. Plenty of good things come his way, but he's always ready
with a signature catchphrase: "And?" In the end, of course, Coke Zero stops him in his
tracks. Taking a swig at a restaurant with friends, he pauses, flabbergasted—and finally
utters a heartfelt "Thank you." The world—or at least some sugar water—has finally met
his lofty expectations.
The spot is nicely pieced together, with rapid-fire montages that illustrate the character's
overactive imagination. The actor himself, Chad Jamian Williams, has a bit of an Adam
Sandler thing going on—contemptible and entitled but in a comically conniving way that
makes him somewhat tolerable. (He even looks like Sandler.) And as a simple
summation of what consumers tend to crave these days, it doesn't get much more
pointed than the word "And."
The ad also introduces a new tagline: "Enjoy everything." But if it teaches us anything, it's
that people these days enjoy almost nothing, as they neurotically pursue
bigger, better, and more. It seems unlikely that Coke Zero will change any of that. But at

11. DEFINE
“UNSELFISHNESS”
Chapter 26

12. How do our “high and holy” prayers
prevent authentic worship?
Ch 27
False spirituality
is always to be
encouraged. On
the seemingly
pious ground
that „praise and
communion with
God is the true
prayer‟, humans
can often be
lured into direct
disobedience to
the Enemy
…[who] has
definitely told
them to pray for
their daily bread
and the recovery
of their sick.
(179)

13. Ch 28 Perseverance
You see, it is so hard for
these creatures to persevere.
(181)

14. Hatred, Cowardice, and Shame
Ch 29
To be greatly and effectively wicked a man
needs some virtue…hatred is best combined
with Fear…Hatred is also a great anodyne
for shame.

15. COURAGE
…courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the
form of every virtue at the testing point, which
means, at the highest point of reality. (184)

16. Ch 30
Fatigue and Exhaustion
The paradoxical thing is that moderate fatigue is
better soil for peevishness than absolute exhaustion.

17. See you after break
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