#363 – Beating the Devil’s distractions (with David Bates)

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode Trent joins David Bates from Pints with Jack to explore C.S. Lewis’s book The Screwtape Letters and discuss the cunning ways the Devil leads us away from God and how we can, through the grace of God, resist his temptations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:10.4	And welcome to another episode of the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:13.4	I'm your host, Caving Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn, and today I get to be
0:18.0	a guest on the Pints with Jack Podcast.
0:20.9	Now, you've probably heard of Pints with Aquinas, that's a podcast hosted by my friend
0:25.1	Matt Fred, but Pints with Jack focuses on the work of CS Lewis hosted by my friend David
0:31.0	Bates, who actually just married a colleague and friend of mine here at Catholic Answers,
0:35.9	Marie Dixon, who is now Marie Bates.
0:38.2	So what David does is he has a different co-host on each week.
0:41.4	He has regular co-hosts, but oftentimes he brings on guest co-hosts to discuss the
0:45.9	works of CS Lewis.
0:47.6	This week he's talking about the screw tape letters.
0:50.8	In the letters Lewis describes how a senior demon in hell screw tape is instructing a
0:56.7	junior demon wormwood and how to best tempt human beings away from God.
1:02.2	In these letters a senior demon in hell screw tape is instructing a junior demon wormwood
1:08.5	in the best ways to tempt human beings away from God.
1:11.6	And actually the best ways to tempt us are the ways you'd least suspect the devil is
1:15.7	quite crafty after all.
1:17.5	So in this episode David Bates and I sit down, we go through the letter and we talk about
1:22.0	all the dastardly ways the devil would try to dam us and how through the grace of God
1:27.9	we can escape his clutches.
1:29.7	So stay tuned and I hope you enjoy this guest starring episode on Pints with Jack here
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