Letter 8

Screwtape starts out by saying, " So you have great hopes that the patient's religious phase is dying away." I found this quote to be interesting in that I am sure if someone was observing our religious ways as a society, we would often seem as if our religious phase, too, were dying. At Carthage alone, many people use the excuse of college to no longer go to church, to commit acts of sin, and not really follow any religious affiliation. Would we too, be considered losing our religion? He goes on to explain how humans are half spirit half animal. Killing one's spirit would ultimately be what makes screwtape win.