Yes, this is could perhaps be considered a children’s book, but it’s some of the most insightful theology on the deeply insidious nature of evil.
It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts…Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.
— ᴘ. ᴍ. ʙ.
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