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Editor’s Note:  British author and theologian C.S.Lewis died in 1963. He is best known for his fiction writings - most notably “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “The Space Trilogy.”  But some others may be more familiar with his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as “Mere Christianity,” “Miracles,” and “The Problem of Pain.”  

He could not have known the 2020 pandemic would happen when he wrote the following in 1942**.  I did not write this.  Just passing along some very prophetic thinking:

One young devil asked the old man:  “How did you manage to bring so many souls to hell.”  The old devil answered:  “I instilled fear in them.”

Replied the young devil:  “Great  job.  And what were they afraid of?  Wars? Hunger?”

The old devil said, “The were afraid of diseases.”

The young devil asked:  “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 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 (to go) 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….. ′′

** Editor’s note:  You may see online that the “always accurate” (not) fact-checkers claim that C.S. Lewis did not write this because they could not find any reference to it in “The Screwtape Letters” in which Lewis makes many references to the Devil. But what these fact-checkers do not know is that the “The Screwtape Letters” is a book comprised of a series of newspaper articles he wrote and a series of BBC radio talks he made in the late 1930s and early 1940s .  This peroration was not included in the book.  The fact-checkers apparently did not bother to look elsewhere for it. These elite fact-checkers are lazy, stupid arrogant morons who think they can control whatever We The People read, see, believe and KNOW as fact….like the fact that the 2020 election WAS indeed stolen.\

FYI:  “The Screwtape Letters” is available as an audible book on Amazon Prime and also at Audible $15.