C.S. Lewis Predicted the Belfast Beheading and the Aftermath - Ep 2908

C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors, um, both of fiction and apologetics.

Writing in The Screwtape Letters, he created a conversation between, um, a demon, a senior demon named Screwtape and his nephew, Wormwood.

And Wormwood was on his first mission, uh, to come and destroy us.

And in the vernacular of the demons, they refer to us as their patients, because we're in need of the medicine of hell.

So C.S. Lewis was r- in that work, in the personage writing as Screwtape, the elder demon, is giving advice to Wormwood, the junior demon, and he writes the following: "Do what you will.

There's going to be some benevolence as well as some malice in your patient's soul.

The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbors whom he meets every day, and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference to people he does not know.

The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary." There's so much to apply this to, and we're gonna apply it to Belfast and the, the aftermath of that attempt to behead a guy, and that's just, that's just the latest there.

The response in Belfast in the UK is not because there's been one incident.

It's because for three to four years, the UK has been forced to bring people into their country who visibly hate their country and who visibly have no interest in becoming part of the country.

And they're military-aged men who then reach points of frustration that the, the culture is not bending to them.

And it's been a collision, and it's been a collision everybody but the smart people saw coming.

And C.S. Lewis in that, though, let's, let's boil this down to a really specific and, I think, uh, easy example.

Do you have any family members or friends who have the, um, "In this life, in this house, we say Black Lives Matters, we believe in science," and all that, and they've cut you off because you differ politically? That's- they've sent you the note of, "Hey, we can no longer be friends.

You know, I don't know that I can forgive you voting for, for Donald Trump because of the violence you've done to me because of voting for Donald Trump." And then they're, they are truly benevolently hearted towards others, and they don't see the contradiction of hating friends and family while having this benevolence for people they will never meet and never understand.

I think of the example of people who have taken into their home, um, homeless drug addicts, people they do not know, and have ended up being murdered by them.

Their benevolence was not matched with benevolence, but they were taking their benevolence and casting it out to the world.

And this is what C.S. Lewis is describing.

Listen to this letter, uh, from a guy named Dr. Philip Kisely.

This is just earth-shattering.

Uh, he's a cultural historian, academic, author, political commentator based in the UK.

He writes, "A year before seven-seven, I was stabbed, beaten, and left for dead on a street in Manchester.

It was a gang of Somali youths.

My colleagues," I was working at a university, "couldn't bring themselves to blame the perpetrators.

It was poverty.

C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors, um, both of fiction and apologetics.

Writing in The Screwtape Letters, he created a conversation between, um, a demon, a senior demon named Screwtape and his nephew, Wormwood.

And Wormwood was on his first mission, uh, to come and destroy us.

And in the vernacular of the demons, they refer to us as their patients, because we're in need of the medicine of hell.

So C.S. Lewis was r- in that work, in the personage writing as Screwtape, the elder demon, is giving advice to Wormwood, the junior demon, and he writes the following: "Do what you will.

There's going to be some benevolence as well as some malice in your patient's soul.

The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbors whom he meets every day, and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference to people he does not know.

The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary." There's so much to apply this to, and we're gonna apply it to Belfast and the, the aftermath of that attempt to behead a guy, and that's just, that's just the latest there.

The response in Belfast in the UK is not because there's been one incident.

It's because for three to four years, the UK has been forced to bring people into their country who visibly hate their country and who visibly have no interest in becoming part of the country.

And they're military-aged men who then reach points of frustration that the, the culture is not bending to them.

And it's been a collision, and it's been a collision everybody but the smart people saw coming.

And C.S. Lewis in that, though, let's, let's boil this down to a really specific and, I think, uh, easy example.

Do you have any family members or friends who have the, um, "In this life, in this house, we say Black Lives Matters, we believe in science," and all that, and they've cut you off because you differ politically? That's- they've sent you the note of, "Hey, we can no longer be friends.

You know, I don't know that I can forgive you voting for, for Donald Trump because of the violence you've done to me because of voting for Donald Trump." And then they're, they are truly benevolently hearted towards others, and they don't see the contradiction of hating friends and family while having this benevolence for people they will never meet and never understand.

I think of the example of people who have taken into their home, um, homeless drug addicts, people they do not know, and have ended up being murdered by them.

Their benevolence was not matched with benevolence, but they were taking their benevolence and casting it out to the world.

And this is what C.S. Lewis is describing.

Listen to this letter, uh, from a guy named Dr. Philip Kisely.

This is just earth-shattering.

Uh, he's a cultural historian, academic, author, political commentator based in the UK.

He writes, "A year before seven-seven, I was stabbed, beaten, and left for dead on a street in Manchester.

It was a gang of Somali youths.

My colleagues," I was working at a university, "couldn't bring themselves to blame the perpetrators.

It was poverty.