There's a powerful passage by Lewis in one of his essays, and I am wondering if one of you Lewis scholars can help me track it down!
Lewis is talking about the tremendous danger in theocracy. He says specifically that its greatest danger is that the cruel man of God comes to see his wickednesses as virtues and pleas for mercy or kindness as wicked temptations to be overcome.
My guess is that Lewis had in mind say the priests who oversaw the Spanish Inquisition's tortures -- though of course the insight has far greater generality.
Can anyone help me out? There's several places where he talks about the dangers of theocracy but only one with the specific insight I mention above.