Screwtape Letters: In the news

I find that C. S. Lewis has amazing insight into the strategies of the devil. I believe in this case, knowledge is power. To recognize that the devil is patient when it suits his purposes in tempting you can be a powerful devil deterrant if applied. The following quotation is an example of a gem:

"But do remember, 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."

- Screwtape Letters, Chapter 12, last paragraph

Another is the power of the press in the hands of the devil. I cannot now find the location of it in the letters. Wherever it is, the Screwtape talks of how the media has allowed so many philosophies to be broadcast to the world, completely regardless as to whether they are true or not. By this the world is in mass confusion because they have so many ideas rattling in their heads that often are not worth any time spent thinking about. Truth and falsehood is turned into just two of many Points of View, which only confuse the issue that really can be as simple as good and bad.