Compliments from the Birthplace of Anguish

Well done good and helpful slaves. Take heart that the works you perform above tormenting the patients of this present world are not lost on the Prince of Torment. Your focused and engaging task of confusing your subjects with misdirection is having great success leading to their final great misery here below. The world wide financial crisis presents us with a great advantage to reach across political, social, racial and gender lines and cause patients of all classes to hold fast to their idols. Before they can even begin questioning their own torturous motivations they find themselves rationing both time and money in a perpetual downspin. The sweet illusion that they have even some control over their own miserable lives is the key to maintaining a firm grasp on the back of their wretched little necks

I'm always watching you...

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Marching Orders

I send this brief note out to the masses engaged in the "Great Deception" above. As your advocate here below it is my duty to inform you of your inadequate attempts above. For a great many decades now we have been successful in influencing our foe that they are "mere mortals", incapable of fathoming a deep understanding of one of the core elements of their creators nature, immortality. This shrewed and clever jest has so triumphantly suplanted the truth it has gone almost unnoticed as a threat. However, urgent attention is needed in shoring up this area of attack as more an more patients are reading the very words of God, shaking this former landslide offensive into a modern day Maginot Line. These pesky patients are coming to understand that they too are immortal and can influence their final destination. We simply must stop this trend from continuing. Pull out all the stops! Get them busy with other notions or confuse them with political manuverings. Your very best work may be required to turn this messy business around.

Your most excellent,

Screwtape

"Change" - The New Battle Cry

To the minions at play in the streets and back alleys of America: Good tidings from the smokey shores of the River Styx. The recent political power shift among our prey is creating wonderful opportunities for all of us. It is like shooting fish in a bucket! You hardly need say a word to these easily manipulated souls or lift a wretched finger to send them into a wild frenzy of excitement.

What a wonderful thing Change is. Even if vague or ill defined, it is embraced by these simpletons as (dare I say it)...a godsend. Keep it up! Do not let them stop to think! Just like their manifold rush to embrace new technologies without stopping to count the cost, keep them wrapped up and onboard this bandwagon called CHANGE. Worry not that the horse is blind...just load the wagon!

I have found that these creatures taste the same whether sulking in deep depression or spinning in wild ecstasy. This new "leader" of theirs is opening up our prospects and ushering in a new age of devilish opportunity

Greetings from the Abyss!

Politics. Politics. Oh, the wondrous taste of politics! Oh, the rampant lies, the deception, the endless debates over what was said, who said it and how it offends this group or that group. Every four years I find myself swimming in delicious delight as the little patients rip each other to shreds in full view of not only the Master but also we lower forms as well. My days as an apprentice demon never were so easy as you journeymen have it now. Why, a little poking, a little prodding, and your subjects easily do your bidding. In my day we had to get into their heads, we had to defeat them intellectually, now you just need to preoccupy them with a cause, offend them or sufficiently confuse the issues. Your beautiful success is warming the darkest recesses of the deepest Chasm’s here below and fanning the flames of hate, and to think, the debates have not even started.

Affectionately your ever-watchful Screwtape

Lets raise a toast to Charles Darwin

Greetings to the demons at large and at play in the ripe fields of harvest. It is not often, if at all that I take time to acknowledge a patient. I gladly make an exception in the case of this easily enlisted and twisted soul...

PERHAPS no one has influenced our effectiveness to decieve human life on Earth as much as Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882). His theory of evolution by natural selection, now the unifying theory of the life sciences, attempted to explain where all of the astonishingly diverse kinds of living things came from and how they became exquisitely adapted to their particular environments. While his theory did not really reconcil any of diverse kinds of fossil forms in the geological record it did keep mankind from searching for a "so called" Supreme Being and that afterall is our ultimate goal.

His creative explanations have so muddled the scientific world that he succeeded in producing in them an environment that will now except no other theories or even discussion. Indeed no other explanation before or since has made such a wonderous mess of the true facts. Darwin's writings produced profound reactions, many of which are still ongoing. Yet even without his evolutionary works of fiction, Darwin's accomplishments in the field of deception would be difficult to match. Darwin's writings are consistantly of interest to an extremely wide variety of readers, producing a demonic influence unparalleled on today's world stage.

Greetings from Below

To the minions at large in the great pursuit of our Father’s Ultimate Exultation. Greetings to you and yours, your great persistence is building there on earth a kingdom that will one day rival that of our Father’s own homeland here below. What a grand and glorious time we live in, where we can each day accomplish much, and with such ease. Our enemy is daily and continuously losing ground due in large part to our two greatest champions of our cause, the media and politics. Dare I say, thanks to those who came before us who worked the unclean thoughts of Christianity out of the schoolrooms and the political arenas? It is always easy to win the argument when you control the rules of play, so to speak. I jealously wish I had been on hand to plant that "question of when life really began" and imprinted the argument for the rights of the individuals to choose. Using the patient’s ideals of freedom and patriotic leanings against him was brilliant. Those demons really paved the way for us.

Still, let us not keep from taking the credit, reaping the benefit of souls lost to these musings. While things are easy now and hopefully will remain, there is always the threat of reformation in the wind. These curious little do-gooders can turn on you in a moment. Consider my dear nephew Wormwood’s famous folly, low these many years ago. On second thought don’t! His failures would taint the delicious joy of our recent success in the California Supreme Court in demonstrating our ability to redefine almost anything, even marriage and the family.

Spinning the truth is so easy and fun these days.

Your ever-attentive senior,
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