FROM ONE DEMON TO ANOTHER

The demonic use of patriotism, pacifism and religion to win the soul of the victim is demonstrated below as Screwtape advises his nephew Wormwood. . . . . 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. . . .    ~C.S. LEWIS, from his book The Screwtape Letters, parts of the final paragraph of chapter 7.

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