Magnificent Malevolence
Memoirs of a Career in Hell
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Pages: 242 Size: 5 x 7.75 inches Published: 2013 Rights: NA Imprint: Lion Fiction | |
Description:
C. S. Lewis, who introduced Screwtape, a senior devil, to the world in 1942, knew that evil is powerful and personal. He understood that its main thrust was against God and the people of God.
There can be no doubt that Lewis would agree that Screwtape and his diabolical colleagues have not ceased their operations in the last seventy years. As the human decades have passed, the same war has been fought, with new weapons and different battle tactics.
How fortunate, then, that the following account, rescued from the archives of the Low Command’s Ministry of Misinformation, has fallen into our hands. This remarkable manuscript outlines the career of the prominent devil, Crumblewit SOD (Order of the Sons of Darkness, 1st Class). It was in a much mutilated state and has only, with difficulty, been cut and pasted together to make a reasonably coherent narrative of the activities of a post-Screwtape generation of devils. It is not, of course, "true" in the sense of being an objective appraisal of the struggles between good and evil which dominated human affairs in the period from 1950 to 2000. The account is distorted by Crumblewit’s truly diabolical conceit and also his ability for self-delusion. However, it does shed fresh light on the ups and down experienced by the church throughout this period.
Crumblewit's energies were entirely deployed in the religious arena. He was employed exclusively in undermining the attempts of Christians to bring to bear upon world events the prerogatives of love, peace, and justice and to carry out the mission entrusted to them by Jesus . . .
My Review:
This is not what I thought it would be. I thought that it would be about how people got tortured in Hell. This book was about a lower level demon trying to move up in the ranks. He wanted to be an upper level demon. This book was full of imagination and I found myself thinking of what hell is really like. Is there a Satanic Secret Service?
What I really liked was how soap operas are described as a way to convince humans to think that killing, stealing and adultery are okay. There are also other things that demons use to influence humans, the decline in churches, and the internet were a few. The main character goes to the devil and pleads his case of using these things to warp the minds of humans. However it takes more that that to turn strong Catholics.
Will the Devil agree to help? Will the plan work? Does the main character get what he wants?
I really liked this book, and I would like to see this author write about heaven as well. I liked the ending, and I liked that the author included notes. I also liked the connection that this book had with C. S. Lewis!
I am giving this book a 5/5. I was given a book to review, however all opinions are my own!
There can be no doubt that Lewis would agree that Screwtape and his diabolical colleagues have not ceased their operations in the last seventy years. As the human decades have passed, the same war has been fought, with new weapons and different battle tactics.
How fortunate, then, that the following account, rescued from the archives of the Low Command’s Ministry of Misinformation, has fallen into our hands. This remarkable manuscript outlines the career of the prominent devil, Crumblewit SOD (Order of the Sons of Darkness, 1st Class). It was in a much mutilated state and has only, with difficulty, been cut and pasted together to make a reasonably coherent narrative of the activities of a post-Screwtape generation of devils. It is not, of course, "true" in the sense of being an objective appraisal of the struggles between good and evil which dominated human affairs in the period from 1950 to 2000. The account is distorted by Crumblewit’s truly diabolical conceit and also his ability for self-delusion. However, it does shed fresh light on the ups and down experienced by the church throughout this period.
Crumblewit's energies were entirely deployed in the religious arena. He was employed exclusively in undermining the attempts of Christians to bring to bear upon world events the prerogatives of love, peace, and justice and to carry out the mission entrusted to them by Jesus . . .
My Review:
This is not what I thought it would be. I thought that it would be about how people got tortured in Hell. This book was about a lower level demon trying to move up in the ranks. He wanted to be an upper level demon. This book was full of imagination and I found myself thinking of what hell is really like. Is there a Satanic Secret Service?
What I really liked was how soap operas are described as a way to convince humans to think that killing, stealing and adultery are okay. There are also other things that demons use to influence humans, the decline in churches, and the internet were a few. The main character goes to the devil and pleads his case of using these things to warp the minds of humans. However it takes more that that to turn strong Catholics.
Will the Devil agree to help? Will the plan work? Does the main character get what he wants?
I really liked this book, and I would like to see this author write about heaven as well. I liked the ending, and I liked that the author included notes. I also liked the connection that this book had with C. S. Lewis!
I am giving this book a 5/5. I was given a book to review, however all opinions are my own!
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