Status Updates From The Screwtape Letters

“As one of the humans has said, active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened. The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel…”

There are so many actions and thought processes that humans do that are never recognized as influenced. Zero reflection done on how deeply they’ve been soaked in evil. Like a lab-grown diamond beginning from a tiny slice of an pre-existing diamond, pressed and pressurized until it’s made into the full version of itself. Sin can grow from the smallest seed of corruption and we can ignore it so easily. Why?

Slapping me silly screwtape