In the fifth chapter of The Screwtape Letters, Lewis retouches on the theme that pain and suffering alone are not exactly evil. It is easy for pain and suffering to distract us from God but it can also point towards Him. The goal for Screwtape is not to to have "their attention diverted from themselves to values and causes which they believe to be higher than the self. (23)." War is not the glorious breeding ground for evil that Wormwood sees it as. In fact Screwtape mentions that it is much better for humans to die in their old age. This again emphasizes the concept of the subtle slope that Screwtape continuously urges Wormwood to take. Lewis feels that war is a very monumental thing, which it most certainly is. He does not however see it as the overwhelming evil that some people see it as. It is interesting to think that Lewis, as a veteran, holds this point of view. I would have expected Lewis to hold more of a prejudice against war than he does.