The Screwtape Letters 25-27

What sort of Christian does Screwtape prefer?

• Christians interested in Christianity and something else.

• Mere Christians.

• Uncommitted Christians.

• Christians befuddled by Christianity.

What is one of Screwtape's most preferred strategies about the human mind?

• Foster disagreement about minor aspects of life.

• Fixate on intellectual abstractions rather than on temporal and spiritual realities.

• Focus on Christianity to the point of overload.

• Focus on sexual distractions to the point of overload.

What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?

• Christianity devoted only to any single subject.

• Christianity devoted only to social justice.

• Christianity devoted only to ending war.

• Christianity concerned with passing trends and fads.

What aspect about humans concerning change has always been useful to devils?

• Acceptance of change.

• Resistance to change.

• Restlessness for change.

• Alternating change.

What does Lewis label Christianity attached only to its own unchanging precepts?

• Modern Christianity.

• Fashionable Christianity.

• Ancient Christianity.

• Mere Christianity.

How does Screwtape see the usefulness of The Same Old Thing?

• Humans resist changes, makes devil work is easier.

• Humans fear change, makes devil work is easier.

• Humans see sameness as stagnation, constantly seek change.

• Humans think change for the sake of change is always best.

How does Screwtape suggest sowing seeds of marital discord?

• Encourage each partner to easily and readily sacrifice for the other.

• Encourage each partner to be selfish during courtship.

• Encourage each partner to seek outside opinions on private matters.

• Encourage lustful sexual relations as much as possible.

What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is great fodder for quarrels?

• One partner being overly sexual.

• One partner a spender and one partner a saver.

• Each partner trying to be less selfish than the other.

• Emphasis on the opinions of friends and relatives.

Why does Screwtape advise that unselfishness is fertile ground for marital strife?

• Unselfishness can alter a person's thinking.

• A woman thinks it is taking trouble for others, a man thinks it is not giving trouble to others.

• Unselfishness leads to sexual dysfunction.

• There is not any way to define unselfishness.

What does Screwtape say the Enemy claims is unselfishness?

• Charity.

• Justice.

• Marital fidelity.

• Chastity.