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Both mere Christianity and screw tape letters came out of World War II. Okay.

But screw tape letters was early World War II, and it was a specific point for Lewis.

He was listening to a 1940 radio speech by Hitler, and Lewis wrote to his brother about the disturbing power

that this broadcast had had on his imagination and intellect, and he kept noting Hitler's

unflinching and forceful delivery and how persuasive it was that he said, quote, statements

that I know to be untrue, all but convinced me at any

rate for the moment.

Wow.

And this observation scared Lewis, but it also planted the idea for a novel as, as I guess it does

for every, I don't know.

He heard that and thought, I should write a book about it.

So he wanted to explore and expose the psychology of evil and temptation by viewing it from the perspective of the tempter.

And so he did this satirically by revealing the tactics of temptation from the perspective of a senior demon named screw tapepe to his nephew Wormwood.

And this was published serially in The Guardian in 1942.

And people were mistaken thinking this was actual advice by someone about temptation.

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