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* [[Evil Is Cool]]:
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]:
** Screwtape refers to atheism as their hot, new weapon in the story. Since WW2 in real-life, there have been numerous attacks - with various means including violence - on various religions and religious peoples by non-religious people and groups. Worst of all are Marxist regimes including Soviet Russia (the first nation in recorded history to have a goal of purging religion to replace it with atheism and had a government-approved League of Militant Atheists group), North Korea's Kim Dynasty and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge which tried to violently purge religiosity and the people who refuse to apostatize. There's also been controversies such as those of the New Atheism movement and their arguments.
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* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Subverted; Screwtape often argues that the task of making the patient an unrepentant sinner is usually best accomplished ''without'' any kind of spectacularly evil act on the patient's part.
* [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: The story is unsubtle on Lewis’ beliefs, however many agree this is to the story’s advantage. It certainly helps that many of Lewis’ comments on things like corrupt churches, religious fanatics, atheism and lust have only gotten more relatable due to subsequent events.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: Addressed and explained with the concept of "Vogues". According to Screwtape, people from differing time periods have had such different values due to the efforts of the demons in manipulating humans to sin. Specifically, the demons get humans to gravitate towards one type of sin in one era, then get the humans to become repulsed by that sin but edged towards a sin on roughly the opposite end of the spectrum in another era. The ideal is to have the society constantly swinging back and forth between dangerous extremes and avoiding a happy medium at all costs.
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