Alas, the imaginary (but one assumes typical) mid-century, probably-Anglican preacher described by Lewis lacked the Internet, thus he could not build an online platform, but had to content himself with the troublement of his own flock and maybe a local newspaper column. The good old days.

Screwtape describes a contemporary preacher—C.S. Lewis, writing in 1942:

At the other church we have Fr. Spike. The humans are often puzzled to understand the range of his opinions – why he is one day almost a Communist and the next not far from some kind of theocratic Fascism – one day a scholastic, and the next prepared to deny human reason altogether – one day immersed in politics, and, the day after, declaring that all states of the world are equally ‘under judgment’. We, of course, see the connecting link, which is Hatred. The man cannot bring himself to teach anything which is not calculated to mock, grieve, puzzle, or humiliate his parents and their friends. A sermon which such people would accept would be to him as insipid as a poem which they could scan.

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