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    Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon's Road Map to Your Soul
    Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon's Road Map to Your Soul
    Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon's Road Map to Your Soul
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    Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon's Road Map to Your Soul

    By C. S. Lewis

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    Temptation and Deception Made Easy

    The demon Wormwood first became famous through his correspondence with his uncle Screwtape, published in The Screwtape Letters. We are now privileged to peruse his field notebook from that demonic training session, complete with scribbles, notes, and excerpts from his uncle's letters. Wormwood's instructions, mission statements, and maxims for special occasions create a "best of Screwtape" that offers witty and cutting strategies for how best to corrupt a brand new Christian and steal him from the "Enemy" -- God.

    If the best defense is to know your opponent's game book, this is a must read for all those who want to retain their souls.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 16, 2009
    ISBN9780061950087
    Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon's Road Map to Your Soul
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    C. S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeñó hasta que se jubiló. Sus contribuciones a la crítica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fantástica y teología popular le trajeron fama y aclamación a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribió más de treinta libros, lo cual le permitió alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras aún atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada año. Sus más distinguidas y populares obras incluyen Las Crónicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo.

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    • 4/5
      The only thing I had a bit of trouble with was understanding the type of language used at the time the book was written.
    • 3/5
      Basically a short, quick, compendium of insights taken mostly from The Screwtape Letters, but also from various other C.S. Lewis works (like Mere Christianity, Pain, Divorce, etc.)

      Quick, easy read. Some interesting thoughts, but if you've read C.S. Lewis before, all covered in his various other works. (The compendium is made by his estate too, so thats an interesting note.)

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    Paved with Good Intentions - C. S. Lewis

    INTRODUCTION

    It seemed an innocuous discovery, an obscure notebook with highlighted passages surrounded by scribbles in a crabbed hand. On closer inspection its purposes become clear, its intentions less innocent. It belonged once to a fiend named Wormwood and represents his training under his demon uncle Screwtape. The notebook contains bits of correspondence, annotations, remarks, and the occasional cross-reference. It is, in short, a demon’s personal field book, full of instructions, techniques, practices, and observations. A working manual of temptation. A handbook of corruption and destruction. A window into a world of distortion and deception.

    There is a current bit of wisdom circulating in our culture of addiction: How do you know when an addict is lying? Answer: His lips are moving. Of course, one could find any number of substitutes for addict: politician, teenager, corporate executive, cable news host, lawyer. We howl in protest, He lied! with the same outrage of a New York tourist complaining about a rigged game of three-card monte: He cheated! And of course we aren’t really surprised. We know that the game is rigged and we know that we’re being lied to—unless we’ve wrapped ourselves too comfortably in denial (another lovely word from the world of addiction!).

    So it is apparently with the Devil: he is a liar. If his lips are moving, he is lying. And as becomes apparent in this fiendish little souvenir, he is happy to employ any strategy to separate humans from the Enemy (God), be they direct lies, diversions, half-truths: deceptions all. His goal is to numb, to corrupt, to erode virtue into vice—any means necessary to move us slowly, inexorably away from the Creator and toward the created.

    The question becomes, Do we believe he is lying to us? Do we believe our game is rigged? Or are we so far gone that we cannot recognize these deceptions and think we’re just fine, thank you very much. Before you answer (before you lie to yourself!), permit yourself a moment or two to review this demon’s notes. Then make up your own mind.

    —Patricia S. Klein

    FIELD NOTE

    Our Mission Statement

    The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

    Re: The Church as a Tool

    Use the Church itself as a weapon against the Human’s Christian faith

    One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans. All your patient sees is the half-finished, sham Gothic erection on the new building estate. When he goes inside, he sees the local grocer with rather an oily expression on his face bustling up to offer him one shiny little book containing a liturgy which neither of them understands, and one shabby little book containing corrupt texts of a number of religious lyrics, mostly bad, and in very small print. When he gets to his pew and looks round him he sees just that selection of his neighbours whom he has hitherto avoided. You want to lean pretty heavily on those neighbours. Make his mind flit to and fro between an expression like ‘the body of Christ’ and the actual faces in the next pew. It matters very little, of course, what kind of people that next pew really contains. You may know one of them to be a great warrior on the Enemy’s side. No matter. Your patient, thanks to Our Father Below, is a fool. Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune, or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous. At his present stage, you see, he has an idea of ‘Christians’ in his mind which he supposes to be spiritual but which, in fact, is largely pictorial. His mind is full of togas and sandals and armour and bare legs and the mere fact that the other people in church wear modern clothes is a real—though of course an unconscious—difficulty to him. Never let it come

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