Comment #1017

2006-11-15T04:01:16Z

This seems to fit into the "Christian Hedonist" worldview that I have heard of (but never studied).

Comment #1016

2006-11-14T16:17:27Z

Yes, that is one of the few lines I remember from The Screwtape Letters. I suppose it has been a year or so since I read it, I probably should read it again.

Comment #1015

2006-11-14T16:15:24Z

Yes, I think he captures the point pretty well. So Does C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, so be aware of the point of view of the "writer" here): Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground. I know we have won many a soul through pleasure. All the same, it is His invention, not ours. He made the pleasures: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden. Hence we always try to work away from the natural condition of any pleasure to that in which it is least natural, least redolent of its Maker, and least pleasurable.

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