just a little ole' clive staples

just a clip of the screwtape letters that i really thought was interesting. and really made me think. it probably has many different implications depending on who reads it, so i'll just let you form your own opinions. (i've highlighted/bolded my favorite thought provoking part)

preface, the person speaking is a demon trying to find a way to turn this christian away from G-d. okay

....As a result, (of having people ask irrelevant questions) while their minds are buzzing in this vaccuum, we have the better chance to slip in and bend them to hte action we have decided on. and some great work has already been done. once they knew that some changes were for the better, and others were for the worse, adn others again indifferent. we have largely removed this knowledge. for the descriptive adjective 'unchanged' we have substituted the emotional adjective 'stagnant'. we have trained them to think that 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,