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Season 5 Episode 22: "Dangerous Joy 2: Deny To Enjoy"

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Screw Tape and the Relationship Between Demons and Christians in Their Struggles to Throw Chaos Into the World

CS Lewis's seminal works where he is basically how creative is this bro? I know. It's insane. He's writing a book that is exploring the relationship that demons have with each other in their efforts to throw chaos into the world, get Christians out of their rocker. So in the screw tape letters, this particular demon writes letters to another demon which is his nephew and they call the Christian that they're trying to pervert. These pleasures provided the patient with a touchstone of reality. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world for its own sake is forearmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

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