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One of the paradoxes of Lewis's book is that it's designed to communicate some incredibly simply ideas: be kind to other people; don't be bad; love your friends and neighbors, etc. In Lewis's view, humans often forget these basic moral lessons, because the lessons are so simple. Humans feel a natural craving for complex, new ideas (Lewis, a lifelong academic, knows this craving very well). So-called intellectual people dismiss the teachings of the Bible because they consider these teachings simple and old-fashione—thus, it's out with Christianity and in with Marxism, Hegelianism, etc.
Screwtape's argument in the passage also clarifies an…