We get letters . . . .

In his original preface to The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis astutely observed:

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

It is healthy to wonder what Lewis would have thought about blogging (he himself had no difficulty with the effects of technology on the media-- Mere Christianity was originally a series of radio talks). How much better to wonder what Uncle Screwtape might have thought.

Might he have warned nephew Wormwood

We can eliminate the danger from many of these "bloggers" from the beginning by focusing them on anything but their faith. Lead him to start a political site, a humor site, a blog about his cat, anything but a site that presents the Enemy's plan. We must keep them on either end of the extreme. The easiest way is to simply keep him away from speaking about Him."

Perhaps so. We have one blogger’s view of what advice might have been given here at Two or Three.

Hat tip to Muley.

p.s. Yes, yes. I am entirely aware that part of Professor Lewis' warning was echoed in The Usual Suspects by no less a philosopher than Kevin Spacey's character "Verbal" Kint: "The greatest trick . . . ."