God is a Hedonist at Heart, Wormwood!

Another great excerpt from C.S. Lewis' classic The Screwtape Letters. Here's my advice: if you don't have this book, borrow it (I will loan it to you). If you can't borrow it, buy it. If you don't have the money, sell your best shirt and buy it. It's that good. Just in case you don't know the plot, I wouldn't want you to misconstrue the following excerpt, so here's the basic idea: Wormwood is a young demon who has been assigned to tempt a certain human being. Screwtape, an older, more experienced demon, is Wormwood's uncle and superior officer. The book consists of letters from Screwtape to Wormwood instructing him in the art of tempting. Full of insights about sin and fallen human nature! In this excerpt, Screwtape is bemoaning God's kind generosity toward the human race.

"He's a hedonist at heart, Wormwood. All those fasts and vigils and stakes and crosses are only a facade. Or only like the foam on the seashore. Out at sea, out in his sea, there is pleasure, and more pleasure. He makes no secret of it; at his right hand are 'pleasures for evermore'...He's vulgar, Wormwood. He has a bourgeois mind. He has filled his world full of pleasures. There are things for humans to do all day long without his minding in the least- sleeping, washing, eating, drinking, making love, playing, praying, working. Everything has to be twisted before it's of any use to us." 

--C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters.