Screwtape expands /on developing church participation for evil ends: 교회출석을 죄악으로 끝나게 발전 시키기
Surely you know that /if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing,
[the next best thing] is [to send him all over the neighbourhood /looking for the church //that ‘suits’ him
/until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches].
The reasons are obvious.
In the first place the parochial organisation should always be attacked,
because, being a unity of place and not of likings,
it brings people of different classes and psychology together /in the kind of unity () the Enemy desires.
[The congregational principle], on the other hand, makes [each church] /into a kind of club,
and finally, if all goes well, into a coterie or faction.
In the second place, [the search for a ‘suitable’ church] makes the man] [a critic]
/where the Enemy wants him to be a pupil.
[What He wants of the layman /in church] is an attitude
//which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful,
but which is wholly uncritical in the sense //that it does not appraise
—does not waste time /in thinking about what it rejects,
but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity /to any nourishment that is going.
(You see how grovelling, how unspiritual, how irredeemably vulgar He is!)
주님께서 원하시는 그것은 마음 자세/태도인데
그 자세는 틀리거나 도움 안되는 것을 거부하는데 있어서는 중차대하지만
그것이 논평하지 않는다는 면에 있어서는 별로 중대하지 않고
거부하는 그것에 대해서 생각하느라고 시간을 허비하지 않는 자세이기도 하지만
진행되고 있는 어떤 자양분/영적 교훈에 관하여 논평 없는 겸손한 수용성에 그 태도를 열린 상태로 두는 것이다
즉 틀린거나 도움 안되는 건 잊어주고 자양분은 받아들이게 열린 마음자세를 말하는데
이런 태도면 비록 마음에 안 드는 교회라도 얼마든지 적응할 수 있기에 맘에 드는 다른 교회를 찾을 필요가 없다
[This attitude], especially during sermons, creates the condition (most hostile to our whole policy)
//in which platitudes can become really audible to a human soul.
* A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché,
이런 자세라면 어떤 진부한 설교라도 심금에 울리는 소리가 될 수 있다
(무익한 하루살이는 걸러내고 자양분만 걸러 먹으므로)
There is hardly any sermon, or any book, which may not be dangerous to us /if it is received in this temper.
이런 자세로 받으면 마귀들에게 위험하지 않을 어떤 설교나 책도 없다
From The Screwtape Letters
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis