I don't remember the BBC films very well, and you're the second person to note that they made the Christian stuff more obvious than the books did. I can just imagine that having the books pressed on you specifically as Christian tracts would spoil them in a different way from suddenly realizing what's going on.
I must admit it never occurred to me to take the demons in The Screwtape letters literally! I assumed it was all metaphors for the nature of temptation and how to resist it. But ugh, yes, if people were trying to use Lewis to make you believe in demons, that would be very offputting indeed.
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Date: 2015-06-25 12:24 pm (UTC)I must admit it never occurred to me to take the demons in The Screwtape letters literally! I assumed it was all metaphors for the nature of temptation and how to resist it. But ugh, yes, if people were trying to use Lewis to make you believe in demons, that would be very offputting indeed.