Screwtape 22-24

I chose to write on letter 22. After reading this letter I could not wait to read the following letters. I was interested in what Screwtape would have Wormwood do because of this new relationship and also the fact that the girl is a devout Christian, the worst kind of girl according to Screwtape. I also was interested with how Screwtape related the Christian faith in the household of the girl to a tainted smell. He says that anyone who goes in that house smells of it and therefore it was a place that the patient should have never entered, because it is a temptation to go towards the Christian side or evil side and forget all that Wormwood had done so far in the case. This letter has been my favorite so far, I am attracted to this letter because of the way that Screwtape handles this new information.

Screwtape 16-18

I chose to write about letter number 16 because it was the one where I connected to the best. I thought that when Screwtape was talking about being "cured of churchgoing" he would tell Wormwood to make his patient to stop attending church completely. Then when I saw that Screwtape would like to have the patient become a test-taster for churches I was confused at first. Then I realized why it would be beneficial for him to do this. If the patient is not listening to just one churches' view then he will start pointing out the differences between the different churches that he is attending. This is beneficial because then instead of listening to the word of God the patient will only be listening in order to criticize what each church is doing. While doing this it will make the patient sin more.
When Screwtape was talking about the two churches that were right in the neighborhood of the patient I was wondering why it would be that anyone would attend either of these churches. I would not when knowing the way each of them are ran. But it seemed like the patient has attended them at least once.