I came across this quote in C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters that really hit the point I’ve been troubled by with the “Simple Living” lifestyle that seems to be flourishing so well in many Christian women to the point that we begin to get our own gospel a little blurry. (I wrote on this last week.)
In Lewis’ book an older demon is training a younger demon on how to make a person’s life as barren as possible. So when you read the quote, everything is backwards: what they want is the exact opposite of what we want.
What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I call ‘Christianity And’. You know–Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity and the New Order, Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and Psychical Research, Christianity and Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform. If they must be Christians let them at least be Christians with a difference. Substitute for the faith itself some Fashion with a Christian colouring.
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