Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil

[soso]

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The human spirit will not even begin to try and surrender self-will /as long as all seem to be well with it.

Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence;

they are masked evil.

오류와 죄악에 더 깊이 빠질수록 유류와 죄악의 희생자들은 그것들이 존제한다는 것 조차  더더욱 덜 의심한다

Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong /when he is being hurt…

And pain is not only immediately recognizable evil, but evil impossible to ignore.

We can rest contentedly /in our sins and in our stupidities;

and [anyone]

//who has watched gluttons /shoveling down the most exquisite foods /as if they did not know what they were eating,

will admit

that we can ignore even pleasure.

But pain insists upon [being attended to].

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience,

but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

* insist on/upon (something) or insist on/upon doing (something) :

 to say or show that you believe that something is necessary or very important.

From The Problem of Pain
Compiled in The Business of Heaven

The Problem of Pain. Copyright © 1940, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright restored © 1996 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. The Business of Heaven. Editing of this collection and preface by Walter Hooper. Copyright © 1984 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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