In The Screwtape Letters, published nearly 80 years ago, C.S. Lewis foretold this very nightmare (which Ernest Becker also illuminated, though more abstrusely, in The Fear of Death, published in 1973). (My thanks to Vera Sharav for passing this along.) ′One young devil asked the old man: “How did you manage to bring so many souls to … Continue reading “And so living, they died every day”: C.S. Lewis saw this coming—and saw WHY