Do We Even Want Peace on Earth?

December 16th, 2024 | 9 min read

One of the more chilling passages C. S. Lewis ever wrote comes in The Great Divorce in which he imagines Napoleon in Hell. The excerpt below is a conversation between the narrator and one of Hell's residents:

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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