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To: svcw; RJS1950

There is a dialogue in the Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis where Screwtape is explaining politics to Wormwood that I think we see a lot of on here...

Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on to the stage at which the religion becomes merely part of the “cause”... Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours — and the more “religious” (on those terms) the more securely ours. I could show you a pretty cageful down here...

Sound familiar?


646 posted on 11/08/2012 11:07:09 AM PST by reaganaut (Kyrie eleison...Christe eleison...Kyrie eleison)
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To: reaganaut

Quite!


683 posted on 11/08/2012 2:48:12 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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