Letters 22-24

I found these chapters to be somewhat interesting, but also sort of hard to understand exactly what was being said by Screwtape. I found it humorous when he was telling his nephew how the girl in his man's life was such a Christian that made him want to vomit. He was saying how she is two faced. In the next few letters, he goes on to tell Wormwood how to make his man believe that he is a part of his girlfriend's circle and that he is the same as them. The goal is to trick him into thinking he is as intelligent and high quality as the people that have accepted him into their group. He will think that he is a Christian like him, but in reality, he is just being socially vain instead of spiritually proud. The purpose of this is to make him actually sin instead of really being a good Christian. I find this very interesting because I wonder often if people in real life behave this way. Sometimes I feel this way. For example, I go to church sometimes and say my prayers and think that I am a good Christian, but in the back of my mind, I wonder if I really am. I know there is a lot more that I should be doing and feeling, but I do not. I wonder if I have a social pride in place of spiritual pride. The demons try to show Christians the faults of Christianity and the Bible to discourage them. Maybe that is what all the corruption in the Catholic church is about. It's interesting to think about things in that way, that demons can really be responsible for such things, but it is not that far from what I believe.