![]() " The trouble about argument is that it moves the whole struggle onto the Enemy's own ground. That is the sort of thing he cares about. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous -that it is the philosophy of the future. Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. ![]() They still connected thinking with doing and were prepared to alter their way of life as the result of a chain of reasoning. ![]() At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not and if it was proved they really believed it. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. He begins by wondering if Wormwood is being naive by bombarding the patient with materialist reading and friends: "It sounds as if you supposed that argument was the way to keep him out of the Enemy's clutches. So what does the senior devil write to his junior? Screwtape describes Wormwood's human victim as a patient and God as the Enemy.
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