Pastor Josh Fields teaches that on the path to folly, we start out as Simple Men. We believe everything (Proverbs Then devolve into Fools (Proverbs And finally into Scoffers (Proverbs In the Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis, there is a senior demon, Screwtape, who is teaching his nephew, Wormwood, how to keep Christians away from God. Their main strategy is to incrementally separate us from God, but sometimes encouraging the Simple’s Man folly is sufficient for their purposes.