Screwtape expands /on developing church participation for evil ends: 교회출석을 죄악으로 끝나게 개발 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 마음자세인데
그 자세는 틀리거나 도움 안되는 것을 거부하는 상식선에서는 중차대하지만
그것이 평가하지 않는다는 상식선에 있어서는 별로 중대하지 않고
거부하는 그것에 대해서 생각하느라고 시간을 허비하지 않는 태도이지만
진행되고 있는 어떤 자양분에 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 교회서라도 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 성격으로 받으면 마귀들에게 위험하지 않을 어떤 설교나 책도 없다
From The Screwtape Letters
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis