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.
If pain is God's megaphone, then Satan, in Lewis’s formulation, would likely speak in lullabies and static. He would not shout but murmur—softening, sedating, diffusing. He would not rouse but lull.
Where God’s pain disrupts, Satan’s voice would soothe into acquiescence, muting the urgency of suffering by offering distraction, rationalization, or numbness. He would whisper in our pains: This is meaningless. This will never end. No one sees you.
He would shout in our pleasures: This is enough. Stay here. Don’t look further. And in our conscience? Perhaps he would not speak at all—only leave a comfortable silence where conviction should have been.
If God's pain wakes a deaf world, Satan’s voice would be the hum of a world rocked back into sleep.
GPT
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