By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
It turns out CS Lewis did not write the following. It is believable that he would have because he was such a brilliant individual and writer. The following is written in a manner that sounds like it could have come from his Screwtape Letters book, but after a long and exhaustive look, I couldn’t find it. I have been told by others they believe the following was indeed not written by C.S. Lewis. That said, whoever wrote it, even if it was after the rise of the recent COVID-19 scamdemic, wrote this in a manner that could truly be, if one thinks about it, a conversation between a couple demons. We are, after all, a gullible lot, be it believing that something was written by someone when it may not have been, to believing that a coronavirus with a 99% recovery rate is as deadly as the government claims.
And what were they afraid of? Wars? Hunger?” Answers the man: “No, they were afraid of the disease!” For this youngster: “Does this mean they didn’t get sick? Are they not dead? There was no rescue for them?”
The old man answered: “but no . . . they got sick, died, and the rescue was there.” The young devil, surprised, answered: “Then I don’t understand???” The old man answered: “You know they believed the only thing they have to keep at any cost is their lives.
They stopped hugging, greeting each other. They’ve moved away from each other. They gave up all social contacts and everything that was human! Later they ran out of money, lost their jobs, but that was their choice because they were afraid for their lives, that’s why they quit their jobs without even having bread.
They believed blindly everything they heard and read in the papers.
They gave up their freedoms, they didn’t leave their own homes literally anywhere. They stopped visiting family and friends. The world turned into such a concentration camp, without forcing them into captivity.
They accepted everything!!! Just to live at least one more miserable day . . . And so living, they died every day!!! And that’s how it was very easy for me to take their miserable souls to hell….. ′′
C.S. Lewis – ′′ Old Devil’s Letters To Young ′′ 1942.