1. If what Screwtape welcomes, we ought to dread, what do you make of his statement that mediocrity among the Patients is a change for the better?
2. How would you define democracy? How do you think most people define democracy? Or do most people even agree on what it is?
3. What do you think about Screwtape's statement "No man you says I'm as good as you believes it. ... The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior."?
4. Screwtape describes an ideal (for them) system of education. How does his ideal compare to the current system of education?
5. What do you think about Screwtape's closing statement?
All said and done, my friends, it will be an ill day for us if what most humans mean by 'religion' ever vanishes from the Earth. It can still send us the truly delicious sins. The fine flower of unholiness can grow only in the close neighborhood of the Holy. Nowhere do with tempt so successfully as on the very steps of the alter.
6. What idea can we take away from this Toast?
7. How does Screwtape Proposes a Toast fit with the letters (ex. Does it complement it? Does it contradict it? Is it better off being viewed as an individual work? etc.)