One young devil asked an older devil: “How did you manage to bring so many souls to hell?” The old devil answered: “I instilled fear in them!”
Answers the youngster: “Great job!"
"And what were they afraid of? Wars? Hunger?” Answers the man: “No, they were afraid of the disease!” The younger demon asked: “Does this mean they didn’t get sick? Are they not dead? There was no rescue for them?”
The old devil answered: “No . . . they got sick and died, but the rescue was there.” The young devil, surprised, answered: “Then I don’t understand???” The old man answered: “You know they believed that the only thing they had to keep at any cost was their own lives.
"They stopped hugging and greeting each other. They’ve moved away from each other. They gave up all social contacts and everything that was human! Later, they ran out of money, lost their jobs, but that was their choice because they were afraid for their lives, that’s why they quit their jobs without even having bread."
"They believed blindly everything they heard and read in the papers."
"They gave up their freedoms and they didn’t even leave their own homes. They stopped visiting family and friends. The world turned into such a concentration camp in their own homes without forcing them into captivity."
"They just accepted everything...just to live at least one more miserable day! And, so living, they died every day!!! And that’s how it was very easy for me to take their miserable souls to hell.''
C.S. Lewis – '' Old Devil’s Letters To Young '' 1942.