The portion of that Hideous strength quoted here seems to be incredibly relevant as we are in the midst of an election. It would seem now, more than ever, people are engaged in highly partisan politics. Lewis, true to form, puts his finger on the heart of the issue. Regardless of what you believe, it is never acceptable to lean too far in any direction. You often end up falling over.
Beelzebub mentors a demon on how to convert a group of activists into food for their Father below. This entry and other subsequent entries are written in the style of a famous work of Christian fiction, The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis. Each piece, having been "written" by a demon must be read as a lie and a warning. They do come from the father of lies after all.
C.S Lewis knew the value and importance of reading a good book. Solely for the sake of the book. Reading good books because they were good and not because they would give you a leg up on the other guy. In the quotes below I hope that you too can fall in love with reading and begin to read good books simply because they are good and you like them.
There are plenty of books and papers written to expound on them being intellectual Christians. That is not my aim here, I only want to touch on it before I move onto my subject matter. Which I will be calling "The value of experience and the template of others live in the understanding of the way things work."
C.S Lewis was an Oxford and Cambridge scholar, a prolific writer, classicist, philosopher, and Christian. He wrote more than 20 books in his time the most popular of which is, The Chronicles Of Narnia and Mere Christianity. Apart from those two books, he also produced two excellent works on both pain in the general sense and grief in a personal sense. Most of the quotes you will find below are from those two works, A Grief Observed and The Problem Of Pain. Though most of the quotes come from those two books, there are a few that I have pulled from his other works — namely, The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia.