How C.S. Lewis Predicted our Culture Today

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[Snow-Willow]

Basically everything Lewis wrote is pure gold if not downright prophetic.
As people who have had troubles with demons in the past the Screwtape Letters are a tough read for my husband and I because Lewis nailed the evil in it so perfectly its unsettling.

[chadlawrence]

My dad was abusive growing up. He was an atheist/agnostic engineer working for Boeing. I didn't think much about God until a Christian neighbor in college kept talking about "praying to receive Christ" whatever that meant. I was a stripper in St. Louis at time and I lived a wild life. So I got on my knees in the shower at 19 and basically said Jesus if you can forgive my sins and change my life I'm in. I didn't expect much but felt like I had nothing to lose. In the days that followed such a warm and love washed over me I was utterly stunned. At first I thought I must be conjuring this up in my own mind. However this love and presence of God overwhelmed me. I began looking into religions and historical evidence for Christianity bc I realized this stuff might actually be true. God so changed my life that my atheist/abusive dad who once laughed at my belief in God ALSO became a Christian after much research. We are now close friends....went to seminary we both ended up in ministry trying to serve people. I've studied CS. Lewis in seminary; his writing skill was only surpassed by his extraordinary understanding of the human condition. Ben we may not agree on who Christ was, but I love the Jews because it was you Jews who put the Bible in my hand. Yes the NT was also written by Jews. The Jews started Judaism and Christianity. The early church were ALL Jews. Zechariah 14 is the end of the story. Israel at the very end will be surrounded and sacked. Then God will come with His Holy Ones(Dan 7) and land on the mount of Olives in Israel and destroy those who are destroying the Jews. Then the Jews will realize the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and Christ are one. Zechariah 12 tells of the Jews weeping for the one they pierced. God bless the Jewish people! Much love to Ben Shapiro! BTW we know Isaiah 53 was written before Christ lived. And the original rabbinic teaching saw this passage as Messianic. Only after Christ life and death was so clearly depicted in this passage did rabbi's change there interpretation of Isaiah 53 to mean Israel...which in context makes no sense. There is reason rabbis do not teach Isaiah 53...it makes them feel very uncomfortable.

[kaytepike]

Thank you for a wonderful discussion of "Screwtape Letters". It's been a long time since I read it. More C.S. Lewis, please!

[danielnm]

At a time when I was doubting Christianity, C.S. Lewis’s writings were of great help to help me see that evil is a real thing. The Screwtape Letters is in some way far more terrifying than any horror novel ever written, showing us how evil possibly operates. A philosophical and allegorical story that at the same time is very accurate.

[judithholt]

What a great analysis. C.S. Lewis wrote 80 years ago about his bankrupt culture and yet his writings are just as descriptive of our culture today. To paraphrase King Solomon "Nothing is new under the sun".

[ragingsilence]

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist".

[jeremycointin]

This setting with him in the middle of a dim room flanked by gargoyles reading The Screwtape Letters is the best thing ever!

[sarakemp]

I can’t wait for the day Ben realizes that Jesus Christ is the Messiah that all of the Old Testament prophets alluded to. It’s going to blow his mind. Praying for you, Ben 💜

[flappyturtlesnatch]

If anyone wants to experience this book, it's complete on YouTube. Also, it's narrated by John Cleese so it's a double win

[agirlnamedgoo-]

"She lives for others--you can always tell the others by their hunted expressions." 🤣🤣🤣

[skylx]

That book said, *"In those days, every secret thing will be as though shouted from the rooftops"* . Social media is the modern equivalent of the rooftops.

There's no secrets online whether willingly flaunted on onlyfans or the alphabet agencies being outted by twitter, seems to me, "Those Days" are here.

[Sousabird]

Lewis is by far one of the best Christian authors and his work can be enjoyed by anyone.

Narnia is still one of the best children's book series, but he also had Mere Christianity which is a masterwork, Screwtape Letters, the Great Divorce, Miracles, The Problem of Pain, A Grief Observed, and the Abolition of Man are all fantastic reads.

[smitty]

Attended Sunday School from five years old though becoming a teenager. I am in my sixties now. What Ben had to say truly resonates with me. Much of what I learned as a young child that was prophesied to happen nearer to the end of times I see going on these days.

These days I see the left working overtime working the devils deeds. The stuff going on these days I would have told you that you were crazy to think it would happen in my lifetime. Yet it is everywhere, and getting worse by the day. Man cannot live without God. I know I cannot.

[philipgraybill]

Ben Shapiro reading and commenting on The Screwtape Letters: what a fantastic way to finish out 2022! Loved this! 😍

[gam]

16:10
God has to limit himself for us to have free will .
I've never thought about it like that💣

[OneroseArts]

C.S. Lewis was really, and will always be, one of the great moral and spiritual thinkers of our time.

[royster]

If you haven't read The Screwtape Letter; you are missing out. Timeless wisdom!

[Fiddlefaddle]

Love is not an emotion. Love is a decision.

[dcollazocsu]

We are homeschoolers. My oldest son, who is in 10th grade, has been reading The Screwtape Letters from C.S. Lewis and it was fun to watch this with him as part of our discussion. Keep up the good content. Gracias!!

[AlexanderEVtrainer]

I've learned about so many new C.S.Lewis quotes over these past few years, and each time I hear one I think "Wow, this guy really knew what was up!"