Screwtape utilises the Internet

Gavin Childress  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Mar 2019
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Screwtape utilises the Internet

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Gavin Childress imagines how C.S. Lewis’s fictional devil would have used digital technology

My dear Wormwood,

Celebrations continued here all night when we heard that your patient at last has devoted himself to our most effective tool to date: the Internet. Of course, on its own it can be an instrument for endless Good or endless Evil. It has nothing essentially sinister about it any more than a blank page or a television screen; yet thanks to our modest efforts, and the hearts of men and women, a vast amount of it will serve our interests day and night.

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