This is the point non-Christians always seem to forget.

[soso]

If there are species, and rational species, other than man, are any or all of them, like us, fallen? 

This is the point non-Christians always seem to forget. 

They seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. 

But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. 

[No creature //that deserved Redemption] would need to be redeemed. 

[They //that are whole] need not the physician.

Christ died for men /precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. 

(Christ died for men to make them worth it)

Notice that [waves of utterly unwarranted hypothesis () these critics of Christianity want us to swim through]. 

We are now supposing [the fall of hypothetically rational creatures //whose mere existence is hypothetical]!

From The World's Last Night

The World's Night. Copyright © 1952, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" copyright © 1959 by Helen Joy Lewis. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.