Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent: Letter 13 Notes
Welcome back to The Screwtape Letters for Lent and today we start with the news that Wormwood has made a “tremendous error.” How appropriate for Letter #13. A quick side note on what makes the number 13 - unlucky. The tradition goes back centuries in the West and is probably based on the mistaken notion that Jesus plus 12 disciples were present at the Last Supper and Judas was number 13. There is, however, no Biblical justification for this theory. For one thing, it would be rather arbitrary to decide that Judas was number 13. In case you were wondering – the fear of the number 13 is called TRISK-AI-DEKA-PHOBIA. You suffer from an overwhelming fear of Friday the 13, when you have PARA-SKEVI-DEKA-TRI-A-PHOBIA And one more bit of #13 trivia before we move on – earlier I said the this is a tradition in the West. In many parts of the East, 13 is a lucky number and the number 4 is considered unlucky. Now before we explore Wormwood’s error and how Scr...