Devils' Spawn

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I thought this morning I would give the pulpit for a few minutes to the words of a senior devil written to a junior devil from the Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune, or have boots that squeak or double chins or odd clothes the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous….’ All sorts of people get drawn to the church, locally not so much, but nationally certainly, a range perhaps from people who are quite like us to those who are really not very like us – from those who agree with us on most things to those have views, with which we totally disagree; from those who behave quite like us to those whose behaviour we cannot tolerate; and indeed some whom we might speculate might actually have been put there by the devil himself!

If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. So if we are not allowed to exclude those that even the devil has sown – the devils spawn- so much more must we put up with those with oily faces and squeaky boots and out of tune voices! The title of the song is so captivating that one cannot help but listen to the lyrics. The title makes you wonder what the song may be about. It simultaneously paints a mesmerizing picture in your mind even before you familiarize yourself with the words of the rest of the song. Hence, in this regard, the title does its job very well.

Perhaps Kurayev andMamontov have different notions about Christianity andits norms. Inan interview with theInternet portal Orthodoxy andthe World, Mamontov spun out atruly apocalyptic picture: "The devil really wants todestroy Russia andits people, tobuild something else onits territory," he said.

Secondly we need to be fair what they are actually saying?Because it may not be the same thing that you have heard that they are saying or was told to you at a dinner party or a gossip mentioned on a dog walk. The enemy, the devil, comes and sows his own seed – plants which will grow into his image are his sons and daughters. But do you know the lyrics’ meaning? The song is about the devil’s crown, which is a metaphor for power. The song is about a person who seems to be in a state of obsession with the devil’s crown, and is willing to do anything to obtain it. The devil’s crown is a bloody one, because it’s earned through violence and bloodshed. The song is about a person who is seduced by the power and violence of the devil’s crown, and willing to do anything to keep it. The lyrics are full of images of death and destruction, and the narrator seems to be in a state of obsession with the devil’s crown.One of our great allies at present is the church itself…when your patient goes inside he sees the local grocer with rather an oily expression on his face bustling up to offer him one shiny little book containing a liturgy which neither one of them understands ….when he gets to his pew and looks around him he sees just that selection of his neighbours whom he has hitherto avoided.