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Chapter VII
Dear Woodworm,
The enemy does not merely ask for the lowly creatures to listen to him but to respond to him as well. It is what they call altar call. Just another part of the program I suppose. However, this is the most critical period in which you need to attack intensively or else all your effort before hand will be gone to waste. As the natural law goes, we can’t make the decisions for these creatures but what we can do is to mislead them into doing something that looks spiritual on the outside but detrimental on the inside.
The enemy had put within the lowly creatures something called love and burden for others. It is not good news for us as their burden for other lowly creatures seems like a powerful weapon the enemy uses to fight against us. But our ever wise leader had devised a way to get around it and make it to our advantage. When the enemy asks those creatures to respond, give them the alternative voice to point to them to someone else whom this creature has a burden for.
Tell the creature the respond is not for them but for someone they know. Give them the judgment that someone else would have to respond to that particular point. If we manage to have full victory in this area, we will have a so called altar call with people responding on behalf of other fellow creatures but no one responding for themselves. How foolish are those creatures, they have no concept that in such sessions, such thoughts only bring them closer to us.
When all else fails and they really respond to the enemy. Don't worry. Don't rush into action and give your stealth away. Just wait outside and bid your time. When the service ends, and the emotional high goes away, hit them with the reality. The reality that the king of the world is us. That we are the lords these lowly humans should worship. In this way, whatever respond they make during the altar call will be rendered worthless and here we go, another victory in the spiritual war.
We will win this war.
From your affectionate uncle,
ScrewtapeLabels: The Devil's Worship