Screwtape’s previous letters talked about love and how people should question it. In Letter 22, Screwtape seems angered at the fact that the patient has fallen in love with a girl who he’s never heard of. I was confused at first because when Screwtape called the girl a two-faced little cheat, I saw that as being a positive thing for the devil. When I looked back to how he was describing her from her record, I realized that he was basically saying that she’s a good Christian and I think he is afraid that with a girl like that around the patient, there is no hope in turning him against God. In letter 23, Screwtape says that because the patient is getting closer to the girl and her very intelligent Christian family that it would be hard to remove spirituality from his life so now they have to corrupt it. Personally, I think that it would be easier to corrupt someone’s beliefs and make then question things that way than to remove spirituality from one’s life.
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I also wrote on this chaper too. I liked what you wrote about on this chapter because i get confused reading this and i come up with a different reaction that i got. I must have missed some parts. I agree with what you noted last. I don't think anyone should force our someones beliefs. It would definetly be disrespectful and it can lose your identity. You can't just let people push you over.
I also was a little confused when he called the girl a two-faced little cheat because I thought the same thing that it should be a good trait according to Screwtape, then looking at it again I realized that it was because she is cheating the devil and not God.
I also agree that the reason Screwtape was angry at the girl was that he was nervous that she could very well end up with the patient and turn him towards God instead of away from him. I think that with the patient with this good Christian girl it would be hard to turn him away from what he was already beginning to believe in.
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