C.S. Lewis's experimental novella The Screwtape Letters, and its excellent stage adaptation produced and directed by Max McLean, is an entertaining, powerful experience, enjoyable for Christians and Christ-ophobes, alike. For Christians, the words are an exercise in reverse psychology — don't pray, hate your relatives, live a double-life, follow your baser instincts, etc. — while their counterparts can laugh and cheer along while the antihero curses G-d and belittles churchgoers, easily missing the ironic truth that they, too, are on the losing side of the cosmic war.
