The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Doodle (I) 

A profound statement man! Good catch!

In the Rabbit Room

He deserves a hug also. :D. Oh why was I not born in the early 20th century.!? Why!? Why!?

Exactly. I am thinking of showing this to other members of my small group before they read the book. I've read it--it can be hard to wrap your head around it sometimes!

There are three more doodled Screwtape letters if you are keen.

Sounds like that passage in 'Screwtape Proposes a Toast' with a few updates: "Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary to warn you that they should never be allowed to give this word a clear and definable meaning. They won’t. It will never occur to them that Democracy is properly the name of a political system, even a system of voting, and that this has only the most remote and tenuous connection with what you are trying to sell them. Nor of course must they ever be allowed to raise Aristotle’s question: whether “democratic behaviour” means the behaviour that democracies like or the behaviour that will preserve a democracy. For if they did, it could hardly fail to occur to them that these need not be the same. You are to use the word purely as an incantation; if you like, purely for its selling power. It is a name they venerate. And of course it is connected with the political ideal that men should be equally treated. You then make a stealthy transition in their minds from this political ideal to a factual belief that all men ARE equal. Especially the man you are working on. As a result you can use the word Democracy to sanction in his thought the most degrading (and also the least enjoyable) of all human feelings. You can get him to practise, not only without shame but with a positive glow of self-approval, conduct which, if undefended by the magic word, would be universally derided. The feeling I mean is of course that which prompts a man to say I’m as good as you. The first and most obvious advantage is that you thus induce him to enthrone at the centre of his life a good, solid resounding lie. I don’t mean merely that his statement is false in fact, that he is no more equal to everyone he meets in kindness, honesty, and good sense than in height or waist-measurement. I mean that he does not believe it himself. No man who says I’m as good as you believes it. He would not say it if he did. The St. Bernard never says it to the toy dog, nor the scholar to the dunce, nor the employable to the bum, nor the pretty woman to the plain. The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. What it expresses is precisely the itching, smarting, writhing awareness of an inferiority which the patient refuses to accept..."

Only those four parts managed. It's an quick introduction to the book really.

I've only doodled four letters so far. Check out the video description for the purchase details of the book, audio book or audio dramatisation.

@@CSLewisDoodle Thank you for your quick response! I have already purchased the book and audio dramatization I'm hoping to find something visual for the teens. Again, thank you for what you have already done!

“Just as the Christian has his moments when the clamour of this visible and audible world is so persistent and the whisper of the spiritual world so faint that faith and reason can hardly stick to their guns, so, as I well remember, the atheist too has his moments of shuddering misgiving, of an all but irresistible suspicion that old tales may after all be true, that something or someone from outside may at any moment break into his neat, explicable, mechanical universe. Believe in God and you will have to face hours when it seems *obvious* that this material world is the only reality: disbelieve in Him and you must face hours when this material world seems to shout at you that it is not all. No conviction, religious or irreligious, will, of itself, end once and for all this fifthcolumnist in the soul. Only the practice of Faith resulting in the habit of Faith will gradually do that.” (Lewis, Religion: Reality Or Substitute?) Could I get you to look at another Lewis doodle or two? Miracles - The Scope of this Book: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BboJqrW8a8U.html & Finding Shakespeare, finding God ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BXlBCZ_5OYw.html

Virgil: Here are a few quotes: 'Not all things can we all do', ‘Fortune favors the bold’. ‘Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts’. 'Every man makes a god of his own desire'.