C. S. Lewis came across some correspondence in his day, and published them as The Screwtape Letters. It seems that old Screwtape is writing again, to another nephew. I came across this and felt I should share it while I had the chance.
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My Dear, Dear Nephew Bitterroot,
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I once advised that fool, your cousin Wormwood, that it is a good idea to try and get Christians off onto tangents. I cannot believe the wonderful job you have done with Rick Santorum. He has taken the compassion the Enemy taught and made it of no account, making literalism and pet causes the real issues. Be sure to get him to sound more and more strident and militant and extreme in his statements about those issues.
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Your strategy is so brilliant! I likely would not have done better myself! Your counterparts assigned to Gingrich and Romney have even been picking up your lead, causing more division in the ranks of the Republicans as each candidate has to keep pace with the other. Don’t worry about the moderate Republicans who see through your strategy; the confusion and chaos your plan is causing is doing its job just fine.
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And, of course, NEVER discourage division within the ranks of the Enemy! If Mr. Santorum want to divide ranks by declaring half or more of the Enemy’s forces are not TRUE followers, then all the better! That means less communication between various parts of the Enemy’s forces and thus less coordination of the Enemy’s forces.
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And saying that we are at war with America! Fabulous! No, no, don’t discourage that. Yes, of COURSE we are at war with America! We are at war with everyone! But Mr. Santorum lives in a time when there is a great deal of skepticism and it just makes the Enemy’s cause look all the more ridiculous and ludicrous.
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Your Admiring Uncle,
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Screwtape
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(Names, contexts, etc. used from C. S. Lewis’ original writings are borrowed, and belong to the owner of the Copyright. Otherwise, this is an original piece.)
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NOTE: I have never named names here. However, with the latest volley in the culture wars, and the attack on liberals as not being “true” Christians, I decided this was now fair game.
