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* [[Evil Is Cool]]: Averting this is pretty much the whole point, as C.S Lewis was aware of this trope. Not only is Screwtape himself a stuck-up, grumpy, backstabbing killjoy and a member of Hell's middle management, but he gives tips to Wormwood on how to minimize how much The Patient can enjoy sinning.
* [[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 atheistic 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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