Like C.S. Lewis, I will not say how such a correspondence happened to fall into my hands, but it did, and as I think it would be instructive to see how these demons work to corrupt we here on Earth, I display them here for all to see.
I would advise, as did C.S. Lewis in regards to the correspondence he came across decades back, that not everything these demons say should be taken at face value, even from their own Hellish perspective.
There is now, as there was back in the days of C.S. Lewis, much wishful thinking in Hell, and Christ's mercy is infinite no matter what they'd like us to believe.
- D. West
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
I would advise, as did C.S. Lewis in regards to the correspondence he came across decades back, that not everything these demons say should be taken at face value, even from their own Hellish perspective.
There is now, as there was back in the days of C.S. Lewis, much wishful thinking in Hell, and Christ's mercy is infinite no matter what they'd like us to believe.
- D. West
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
I read with great concern your last email in which you tried to assure me that while your patient is reading the Bible, he is "only" reading two or three verses a day, and not the chapter a day he had committed to.
Can you possibly be so ignorant as to assume that such is a good thing? Please, make no mistake, getting a human to commit to a large thing that he will inevitably fail in is always fun, and does much to break their spirit. But that involves them failing once, and then not returning to the task.
In the case of your patient, he has failed to read a chapter a day, and that has filled him with guilt, but instead of then giving up on the whole sorry mess as impractical, he's instead stuck with reading "only" (as you so foolishly put it) those two or three verses.
Do you not see that is the worse thing that could happen? For now, while sorry for not being better, and striving to figure out ways of being better, he is still reading that Bible each and every day! The Enemy Above does not have a quota, He cares not how many or few verses these creatures read, it's that they are reading and learning of Him at all, that they show they care to, and most of all, that they do it consistently, as this one does!
Rather than be happy that he reads but a few verses a day, you should have had him power read several chapters at once to "catch up", then when that fatigued him, and indeed, boredom closed his mind to any meaning past the first half chapter, then he could "rest" for another few days...that could with care, drift into months!
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
You write me, still trying to excuse your past failure, insisting that such few verses he reads are out of order, yet you give me no information on the obvious solution that you should have already implemented!
First, as to your claim that the patient is reading verses from the Bible "out of order", yes, I get it. One day he's in the Gospel of Mark, the next Malachi, the next Proverbs. He's here, there and everywhere, but not embarking on any consistent course of study.
Yet what you are thinking as a good is really terrible for us! Yes, it is haphazard, but can you fail to realize - as he has already realized - that no matter where he turns in that book he gets good ideas, moral instruction, interesting points to ponder? And that detestable peace that we should like to see none of them ever achieve?
And here you are, thinking that this is good, and that it would somehow be worse if he studied "thoroughly" (as you put it)!
Don't you realize that if you cannot cure a man of Bible reading, the next best thing is to get him "on a course of study"? For any course of study has as it's best feature that it involves him reading something besides the Bible!
Every scholar who ever wrote a Bible study guide - and they are Legion, lol - has to inject a bit of himself into it. To show off, in his own pride, what his insights were! But he can come at it with all the good intentions on Earth - and we know what great pavement stones such make! - and still if one is reading him, one is not reading the Bible!
The trick is that first you have him read a "guide" that has "insights" into the Bible, a book that was already more than adequate to explain itself. If you only did that, such would be good, but one can go even farther!
You lead him - gently, gently! - into the Snare of Scholasticism, where he studies more and more about less and less until finally he can speak authoritatively on everything...but the Enemy Above's plain and simple message!
You know the type - they bore any who come into contact with them with phrases like, "But if we examine that verse in the original Achean Greek, which Professor Dipdoodle did in his paper published in 'Theologica Obscura', June of 1972, we can see that when verse seven says 'punish' it really means 'correction'!"
Not only do such supposed evangelical sharings turn any who hear them away from the Bible, but it has the effect of making the patient doing that increasingly studying anything but the Bible.
For when one is reading Greek etymologies, or 20th century treatises, or summaries of this or that, one is reading a great deal - but one is NOT reading the Bible! And no, such a type scooting over to a verse here or there to be used as a bat to hit anyone who does not agree with their "interpretation" is not a danger we need fear!
Now, enough of your blatherings about your past failures, tell me which church he is going to? And does he regularly attend?
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
You carefully avoid answering me as to what church he is going to by inquiring of me which church we'd prefer him to go to? You desire to know which churches are the falsest, as if then some were the truest?
The short answer is that they are all false. Run by these contemptible creatures, how could they be anything else? Yet yes, even in spite of that, there are levels and some are falser than others, hence some a bit truer. But these are fine distinctions.
The key here is - as with the Bible verses - not so much where he is going, but how consistently he goes, and with what motivations. A man going to a putatively truer church, but only sporadically, and only for poor motives, is far better for us than a man going to a "falser" church, but consistently, and with an attitude of honest desire to draw closer to the Enemy Above.
Yet, if we take the man as consistent, and with a true heart, then yes, it is better that he be in a less true church then a more true one. Obviously. Such types then should be steered, whenever possible, to the "liberal" churches. Liberal not so much "politically", though they are usually that, too, but theologically.
You know the sort. More social clubs of charitable do-gooders, which while we detest any doing of good, is better than the smaller and poorer churches who nonetheless are approaching our Enemy Above as an actual existing God, a Creator, and one worthy of worship.
The "Mainline" or "Mainstream" Protestant churches are a great example. Once stalwart adherents to the Bible and utterly obedient to the Enemy Above, they produce now some of the greatest warriors in our Dark Father's service!
They are the masters of the "God is Love" fallacy, in which they take a true fact - that He is Love - and morph that into two things. One, that He is not even a "He", but just kind of a fuzzy idea of some universal love that is found in all these creatures! And two, that as this now "concept" - as opposed a literal being - is of love, that this "Love" is a love that tolerates all, even the most contemptible of sins!
If your patient is one of the consistent ones that we'd normally have to fear, then get him over to one of those pits of syllogisms and sophistries, and let him learn "consistency" in renouncing the real entity we know and fear, and embracing instead some Eastern style "Love" as a meaningless concept that applies only to the excusing of all failings!
And as to that smidge of charitable do-gooding - well, more on that later, should it come up!
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
You email me, in all pride, that your patient is attending "one of those" churches that takes the Bible "literally"! You say it like it is to your credit, like this will make it easier to dislodge him from our Enemy Above, as we can make him embarrassed that his church's views are so different than the society he lives in!
You particularly cite how this church believes in a literal six day creation, as opposed to evolution, and you think that this will jar him. Amazing. Were he wishy-washy, maybe it would jar him, but given that he seems by all accounts to be consistently and persistently trying to draw closer to our Enemy Above, do you not realize this is the worst type of church for him to attend?
Evolution, not the obviously true "micro" kind relating to selecting various traits in created and established species, but the false kind of "it all came from the primordial ooze" has been, is now, and forever will be one of our Dark Father's greatest triumphs!
The concept of life coming about mechanistically, without any Divine Creation, is not the harmless thing that we have got many Mainline churches to believe. Nearly all the Mainline Protestant churches (our churches!) have decided that rather then look "foolish" they will embrace Evolution. Mostly as we have taught them that it is "science", so now they blithely preach from the very pulpit that such in no way contradicts a belief in Jesus!
That Jesus died solely and specifically to atone for the sins that man embraced in the Garden of Eden has apparently flown right out of their heads, it never occurs to them that if men evolved from lower orders, then there was no original sin, thus nothing for Christ to atone for, thus it would have Him having died for nothing!
And really, who even is "Christ" if He died not for their sins? No Christ we need fear!
You want your man in that kind of church, so he can "consistently" learn to "love Christ for His sacrifice" while at the same time "believe that men evolved and thus His sacrifice was meaningless". No, he will not think of it so clearly, but that will be what is taking place all the same. Increasingly then, he is not worshiping or appreciating the real Christ at all, as well, it was sweet He died, but what difference could that ultimately make?
This also clearly eradicates the doctrine of there being any kind of innately sinful things. Then, given that it's accepted that they "evolved", then it's just that everyone has some weaknesses, but they aren't sinful, they were only "born that way". It's only "natural"!
What a wonderful word "natural" is for us! It used to mean "that which takes place because it is good and beneficial to the ultimate order of things", but after decades or our ceaseless efforts it now means, "anything I or others choose to do, however disgustingly vile"!
Ever wonder why churches that accept evolution also accept drinking, homosexuality, pre-marital sex and almost every other sin the Apostle Paul listed as the sure tickets to damnation? It's not a coincidence, it's an effect carefully planned for, and the entire reason for us introducing that false concept in the first place!
But the damage is done, he is in a church that has nothing to do with that nonsense, and accepts both that evolution is false and that sin is really sin. Not "natural". Please tell me what you are doing about that - have you tried to convince him that such attitudes towards sinners are "hateful" and "intolerant"?
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
He knows then that it is not "hateful" or "intolerant" to name a sin as sin. This is bad. He knows that while no one wants to pounce on a new prospective member who is clearly sinning, that at a given point, he must have his sin pointed out so he can have an opportunity to correct it and be saved. Very bad.
That kind of love - the love willing to incur some anger and heartache for the sake of saving another - is the worst kind love he can have. We want them instead to have the "love" that is afraid to correct anyone about anything, so that all is okay, and all can, while attending regularly, be led down gently to damnation even while singing hymns the whole way!
In such cases, you must sever the two part process that is necessary to "lovingly correct" another. If one is to do it correctly, one would have to name the sin, gently, then offer means to correct it, with the person bringing this up then being there for the sinner every step of the way.
But that's a lot of work. Instead get your man to name the sin, but then just expect the other to correct it, and do nothing further to aid them in this. That may seem a small start, but properly done, can lead in time to then the patient just naming the sin, then walking off rather haughtily feeling good that he somewhat insulted another man, then left him there to stew about it.
Properly handled, the patient may at some point become a "sin searcher" and look about at everyone new or old, to find their sin, name it haughtily, and then in doing so, think he has done a good deed! While really doing nothing but aggrandize himself - for not having that sin - and lie to himself, for surely he has many of his own!
This then also separates him from any brotherly love he had felt for his fellow man. Now they are his enemies, to be corrected, and to be lied to, for as he will be aware of some of his sins, he will have to work to hide that which he should have brought to them for aid in correcting!
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
Ahh, the first bit of truly good news! This patient of yours, consistent in his desire to improve and aid others, and attending a church that follows the Bible literally, has come across a female online, in one of his faith's own religious groups, and she wants to learn more!
And instead of passing her over to a sister in Christ, he has undertook the task himself, married though he is! And for six weeks now, and not a word to his wife about this "ministry"! Well done! But so well done, I cannot help but feel it was accidental! Yet, let us build from that anyway!
Many a man, well versed in "sin being sin" would never dream of indulging in adultery. Yet thanks to our efforts, we have trained them to think that adultery is "sex with a person not your spouse". That this clearly overlooks what Jesus said about "adultery in the heart", they mostly do not think of, and when they do, they take it to mean that one would have to be "fantasizing" about having sexual intercourse with the person.
The internet then has been a great boon to our efforts, and it is no secret, even among themselves, that adultery has shot up in the decades since everyone went online. They know that is the case, but still we cloud from them what it really means, and so long then as they are not "sexting" they figure - falsely - that they are safe!
Six weeks! I roll the words "six weeks" around my forked tongue, and it tastes so good! Six weeks of "moral instruction", which since one cannot just leap into such has meant getting to know her - the better to "minister" to her, of course!
A review of the past six weeks shows me the usual course. His wife, busy with their small children, had not had as much time to listen to his usual mundane complaints about work. But the "lady" he was "ministering" to online was more than up for ignoring her brats to "there, there" him! The wife, not realizing her position could be threatened by this other woman, indeed not even knowing there was another woman, would not express any overabundance of sympathy to his minor plights, nor express any rapt interest in his little victories.
But the other woman did!
In his usual male vanity - which I see you did exacerbate well, by the way! - he has took this as a sign that he really is that interesting, that his ups and downs really are that fascinating, and that this then is a sign that this other woman must be "keenly insightful" and "wonderfully understanding"!
That she is - whether realizing it herself or not - desperately on the prowl for who she sees as a job holder and provider when her life has been filled with nothing but bums and thieves, never occurs to him. That she's not busy raising his kids and cleaning his home and cooking his meals - and so has the time and energy to "ooh" and "ahh" over his least crap, never occurs to him.
And now he has found himself increasingly waiting to get home to share his day with this one, as opposed to his wife. For once any share their day the first time, they rarely care to share it again - which means that he has already been literally stealing from his wife that which was hers! Opportunity to learn of him and grow in knowledge of him the more is now going to the other woman!
The silence, the distance, the gap this creates between he and is wife is almost just icing - but a delicious icing all the same, and well suited for drawing him even further away from her!
Now, have you got the report from Pierceprofit about her?
But the other woman did!
In his usual male vanity - which I see you did exacerbate well, by the way! - he has took this as a sign that he really is that interesting, that his ups and downs really are that fascinating, and that this then is a sign that this other woman must be "keenly insightful" and "wonderfully understanding"!
That she is - whether realizing it herself or not - desperately on the prowl for who she sees as a job holder and provider when her life has been filled with nothing but bums and thieves, never occurs to him. That she's not busy raising his kids and cleaning his home and cooking his meals - and so has the time and energy to "ooh" and "ahh" over his least crap, never occurs to him.
And now he has found himself increasingly waiting to get home to share his day with this one, as opposed to his wife. For once any share their day the first time, they rarely care to share it again - which means that he has already been literally stealing from his wife that which was hers! Opportunity to learn of him and grow in knowledge of him the more is now going to the other woman!
The silence, the distance, the gap this creates between he and is wife is almost just icing - but a delicious icing all the same, and well suited for drawing him even further away from her!
Now, have you got the report from Pierceprofit about her?
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
She lives in his very town, but goes to a different type of church, one putatively "non-denominational" but really (and as is usual!) in keeping with much of the watered down worthlessness of Popular "Doctrine" as the mainline churches preach?
Yeah, you should have lead with that!
For starters, "non-denominational" churches are a great invention of ours, it being a harmless sounding way of saying, "Laodicean"! Yes, these churches are never hot or cold, but only go two ways. Bland enough to appeal to everyone and thus aggrandize whoever started it as the business owner he is, or still that way, but with a band and high tech vid screens and even more major money invested, the better to skim off even more in salaries for himself and all his relatives and hanger ons.
From the littlest house church of "The Reverend Pastor Doctor Amos Brown's First Church of the Chalice of the Divine Redeemer's Love" to the largest "McMega Church of the Sound System and Light Show" you may be sure the message will not be strong, will not be controversial, and will not be about anything but keeping the seats - and offering plates - filled!
In the case of the small ones, they are usually pretty much just a family business, with a few other families and friends swirling about out of long habit. Neighborhood community associations, at best. In the case of the large ones, they are those who knew they should attend church, but figure that "if it's not entertaining and modern the kids won't like it", thus blaming their innocent kids for their own idiocies and short attention spans!
And this little strumpet goes to a Mega one, with over five hundred fools jumping up and down each week, doing everything but hold up their lighters or cell phones as if at a concert! And she's one of the secretaries - er, "administrative assistants" - to the Head Pastor? Ahh, this almost writes itself!
Almost!
Now attend carefully, she's on the prowl, she has sank her claws into your patient already, and it is your job to see to it that he does not scoot away! Work closely with Pierceprofit on this, I don't want to hear of you two junior fools working at cross purposes and letting either get away!
Close proximity always does that.
That this serves to introduce him to a more wishy-washy church is simply a bonus.
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
I'm seeing a smooth working on all fronts, and I am tentatively pleased! Perhaps even cautiously optimistic! Yet at this stage, it is yet a juggling act, and one that you can fail at quite easily if once he ever remembers that getting out of this mess is as easy as calling upon Christ!
Fortunately, he is not yet thinking he has need to!
Predictably, he has chose to avoid feeling guilt for his increasingly obvious betrayals of his wife by...blaming his wife! He could have said, "I have betrayed her and need to repent!", but instead, and thanks to your aid, and his own weaknesses, he has chose to say, "She hasn't been there for me, and thus I need to be with a 'real' Christian woman!"
Hilariously, a 'real' Christian woman in this case - and tens of thousands of others that we arrange nationwide - being an adulterous homewrecker who wouldn't know Christianity if it bit her on her surgically altered nose! One who only ever joined church in the first place to find a father for her out-of-wedlock brats!
Notice how he takes his ring off - to Bible study? Their silly little conversations about how their love "just happened" instead of being the result of all the various mistakes they deliberately chose to make? How they tell themselves that they're not really lying to anyone, just keeping things discrete while "working things out"? It's always so easy to get these humans to believe such idiocies - when not believing them would mean they didn't get to indulge!
And all this without there yet being sex! The most sin, for the least enjoyment, a famous demon I once knew spoke of that! You're too new to have worked under Administrator Emeritus Screwtape, but he blazed a trail that the rest of us still follow to this day!
May I also say what a joy it has been watching the actual Bible study? Where almost every week is yet another lesson on how "this Bible verse really means that"? Ahh, humans! Words that say "I created the Heavens and the Earth in six days." can never simply mean that, but must be analyzed and dissected and translated and modified and interpreted! "Golly, the sun wasn't made till several days in, so who knows how long the days were, huh?" and "maybe they were, like, eras or epochs, six of those, and that's kind of like evolution!"
Would that we could have Bible studies like that in every church on Earth!
Notice how in discussion there is participation? But not clean participation where any are asking questions to aid them in their own personal spiritual growth! Oh, no!
But making comments to display their own "insights", their own "interpretations"? Oh, yes! Or the blindingly obvious rhetorical questions meant to simply toss doubt onto a topic? Or to slip their own opinion in under the guise of 'just' asking? Or to simply show off how brilliant they imagine they are?
Ahh, such things of beauty! Again - if only all Bible studies could be like that! But wait, they pretty much are! We have come that far! Soon -
(at this point the email was interrupted and I, Badgepuscle, humble aide to Assistant Administrator Bailjam, am continuing for him)
I've been briefly transformed into a Giant Centipede in my excitement over how well we are doing not only with this individual but with the humans of the world, and in America in particular! I'll have more to write when I've regained my usual form. Until then:
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
For starters, the "this Bible verse 'really' means that" ruse should always be encouraged. Substituting word meanings is only one way. One can also find some obscure verse in which something really was used to mean something else, but then conflate that into every other verse in the Bible with that word thus having to mean something else every time!
Thus "wine" is wine in the Old Testament and grape juice in the New, and wine again later on in the New and whichever way causes the most confusion. Let Hell be a grave or a fiery pit or this or that. In some cases there are real distinctions, easily discernible by obvious context, in other cases there's really not, but in all cases they are not then studying Christ's sacrifice and what they need to do to atone!
Is there a point to that? Well, when you see a church pride itself on it's belief in the literal truth of the Bible and yet have a woman "elder" preach that message, then you may know we've come far in leading them astray with the trick of "this really means that"! Picture the next - and ever dwindling - generation who has to hear their parents go on and on about the importance of Biblical literalism - while accepting women elders, divorce, and such!
Hypocrisy. Always great for weaning the teens and twenty somethings away from the faith. And hypocrisy is always provided in such abundance by the leaders of the churches themselves!
Now. You asked what I meant by "America in particular", though. I'm minded to answer. You see, while you might find it hard to believe now, America had once been the greatest threat to us that we'd ever faced!
A nation not only of Christians, but such Christians! Everyone in Europe who had the least desire to worship in freedom and peace flocked over to America, making it almost a pure distillation of all the many ways of worshipping our Enemy Above!
True, we managed to still get them to do all manner of bad things, individually and as a nation, but with that over-arching idea of Christianity, we were yet losing millions of souls as generation after generation grew up attributing all manner of goodness to this "Christianity".
It was not to be tolerated, it had to be removed, and for that we had the help of the Communists! I know, I know, before your time, but they were a handy tool for causing all kinds of mayhem!
I'm not going to give you a whole boring history, though you may find it at our Dark Father's Online College for Junior Tempters, but they were able to bring about a cultural revolution in the 1960s that led to all manner of - as usual - good and bad things. Women's actual equality in rights - bad. But women despising those who chose to be wives and mothers - good. Homosexuals not being beaten and murdered - bad. But homosexuals being accepted as 'natural' - good!
And most of all, in their political leadership! The day - I still remember where I was! - when a good and decent church going man, solidly married, ran against some Hollywood actor who had divorce in his history, and lost, well, I know there wasn't a dry eye down here!
For we had taught them to only listen to the words of the "right" politicians and to accept any unrepented of sin of theirs so long as the proper words were said. We've come so far on this that the "Christians" - such as they are today - still castigate a former President who was a regular church goer married to the same woman all his life but praise a President who has divorced several times after cheating on each previous wife! And now cheats on his current wife, herself a former lesbian porn star!
These Americans! Never ones for half measures! Wherein first they castigate and stigmatize all single mothers, now half a century later they praise all single mothers as saints! Homosexuals must be either brutalized or enshrined! Women must have no rights or ten thousand made up ones! Never is there any moderate - and Christ-like - middle for the Americans!
And thus what once was a bastion of Christianity could now desperately use some missionaries from other parts of the world sent to it! I could even show you one church, where the only reason they don't accept gay marriage (yet!) is because they routinely get outvoted by all the other Conferences from Africa, Central and South America!
Thus "wine" is wine in the Old Testament and grape juice in the New, and wine again later on in the New and whichever way causes the most confusion. Let Hell be a grave or a fiery pit or this or that. In some cases there are real distinctions, easily discernible by obvious context, in other cases there's really not, but in all cases they are not then studying Christ's sacrifice and what they need to do to atone!
Is there a point to that? Well, when you see a church pride itself on it's belief in the literal truth of the Bible and yet have a woman "elder" preach that message, then you may know we've come far in leading them astray with the trick of "this really means that"! Picture the next - and ever dwindling - generation who has to hear their parents go on and on about the importance of Biblical literalism - while accepting women elders, divorce, and such!
Hypocrisy. Always great for weaning the teens and twenty somethings away from the faith. And hypocrisy is always provided in such abundance by the leaders of the churches themselves!
Now. You asked what I meant by "America in particular", though. I'm minded to answer. You see, while you might find it hard to believe now, America had once been the greatest threat to us that we'd ever faced!
A nation not only of Christians, but such Christians! Everyone in Europe who had the least desire to worship in freedom and peace flocked over to America, making it almost a pure distillation of all the many ways of worshipping our Enemy Above!
True, we managed to still get them to do all manner of bad things, individually and as a nation, but with that over-arching idea of Christianity, we were yet losing millions of souls as generation after generation grew up attributing all manner of goodness to this "Christianity".
It was not to be tolerated, it had to be removed, and for that we had the help of the Communists! I know, I know, before your time, but they were a handy tool for causing all kinds of mayhem!
I'm not going to give you a whole boring history, though you may find it at our Dark Father's Online College for Junior Tempters, but they were able to bring about a cultural revolution in the 1960s that led to all manner of - as usual - good and bad things. Women's actual equality in rights - bad. But women despising those who chose to be wives and mothers - good. Homosexuals not being beaten and murdered - bad. But homosexuals being accepted as 'natural' - good!
And most of all, in their political leadership! The day - I still remember where I was! - when a good and decent church going man, solidly married, ran against some Hollywood actor who had divorce in his history, and lost, well, I know there wasn't a dry eye down here!
For we had taught them to only listen to the words of the "right" politicians and to accept any unrepented of sin of theirs so long as the proper words were said. We've come so far on this that the "Christians" - such as they are today - still castigate a former President who was a regular church goer married to the same woman all his life but praise a President who has divorced several times after cheating on each previous wife! And now cheats on his current wife, herself a former lesbian porn star!
These Americans! Never ones for half measures! Wherein first they castigate and stigmatize all single mothers, now half a century later they praise all single mothers as saints! Homosexuals must be either brutalized or enshrined! Women must have no rights or ten thousand made up ones! Never is there any moderate - and Christ-like - middle for the Americans!
And thus what once was a bastion of Christianity could now desperately use some missionaries from other parts of the world sent to it! I could even show you one church, where the only reason they don't accept gay marriage (yet!) is because they routinely get outvoted by all the other Conferences from Africa, Central and South America!
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
So the Elders of your man's church have been approached by the now frightened wife, and they've called him to schedule a time for him to come in and discuss things! Well, don't worry, a call from church elders isn't what it used to be!
For one, men nowadays have their social circle much broader than church. Work is a large part, their own family, their own college buddies, and of course, their social set online! What a boon these social networks have been, to let a person feel "connected" even as we isolate them the more! And of course, such online friends either accept their crap and sins uncritically and unconditionally or are quickly blocked!
Meaning that each who get their social feedback from online are increasingly being affirmed in their own sins and fallibilities routinely, with any who'd criticize them for misbehavior being labeled as "trolls"!
Meaning that each who get their social feedback from online are increasingly being affirmed in their own sins and fallibilities routinely, with any who'd criticize them for misbehavior being labeled as "trolls"!
Gone are the days when fear of social ostracism at a local church could keep a man on the straight and narrow, safely enmeshed in morality till death! Now hearing from such elders is more of an inconvenience, and far from engendering any fear, only causes a bit of annoyance at most.
In the old days, he'd have gone in thinking "what must I do to get back in the good graces of my church?", now he is thinking, "who do they think they are, to try to 'judge' me?".
In the old days, he'd have gone in thinking "what must I do to get back in the good graces of my church?", now he is thinking, "who do they think they are, to try to 'judge' me?".
The Elders of most churches bear a lot of blame on this kind of thing. Men and women have never been blind to how Elders in all eras are a bit more "for justice" when it comes to those they don't know or care for, and a bit more "for mercy" when it comes to their own. Or the big tithers! And that kind of hypocrisy - and most all have it - is the surest way to get anyone, including your patient, to reject any counsel that might be offered.
You know the drill. The "What right have you to accuse me of X when you let Brother Such and So get away with Y last year?" True, your patient won't really know for sure what they may or may not have said to that previously sinning Brother, but that the Brother is still there, and still holding any title or office he previously had, will let it be guessed that it couldn't have been too great a censure.
Notice how absurd this is? Oh, sure, the previous brother probably did get away with something, but what really should that have to do with the current person's sin? And if they dislike that one got away with some sin, how can they then desire to get away with one?
But that's these humans, no real logic, they are not the rational animals they love to imagine, but more the "rationalizing" animals we know! Therefore, if one person who tithed a lot, or is cousin to the Minister got a free pass, then all open and unrepentant sinners in church must get an equivalent free pass forever!
You must decide, though. Should he go for the straight denial? I'd advise against that. He's well into adultery now, but might shy away from lying outright to his fellow church goers! Better to have him trot out the story that we both know he's been rehearsing! Where he has come to know he "must" divorce his wife, he's "tried" and it "just can't work"!
And that the other woman is simply a good and decent sister who has been there as a friend in his time of need! If they try to explain the obvious, only then let him get the more vigorous in his denying, and since they obviously do not have footage of him literally in bed with her, he can pretend that he has actually been wronged by their "unsupported" allegations!
Not being an utter fool - not quite, anyway! - he'll know they don't fully believe him, but this will then let him have an easier time leaving that church, which he'd been trying to figure out how to leave anyway, so he could be closer to his lover!
Check with the other Junior Tempters who are "guiding" those Elders, too. If they know of any sins in their closets, are they sins that your patient knows of? If so, pound that hypocrisy drum hard, for obviously unless the Elder chastising him is a perfect saint who has never made a single error then he can hardly dare to presume to judge, eh?
rotflmao!
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
Your man is now separated from his wife and children and safely attending his new church with his "friend" and her brats! Wonderful! They've now been at least honest enough to admit that they are more than friends, but still they're playing at "dutifully waiting". This isn't fooling the congregation even of this McChurch, but it lets them kid themselves that they can safely meet at her place and have sex with supposedly any who might see him go there thinking it's innocent!
Ahh, the first fires of lust - er, "love" as we teach them to call it! It truly lets them believe anything, once they've gave into it! And you got them into the bed, after more and more make out sessions on her couch, with the old, "But we're married in our hearts!"
That never gets old! And the men who trot that one out, notice how they all become Oscar-worthy actors when they say it? Such sincerity, such emotion they pack in that single Hell-inspired phrase! And never has it failed to work, when used against a woman already dallying with another woman's husband!
That never gets old! And the men who trot that one out, notice how they all become Oscar-worthy actors when they say it? Such sincerity, such emotion they pack in that single Hell-inspired phrase! And never has it failed to work, when used against a woman already dallying with another woman's husband!
However, it won't last, so now is the time to make sure that your boy (and he is your boy now!) burns as many bridges behind him as he can. Get him to greatly exaggerate just how great a love to how wonderful a woman this is - so he'll feel foolish if he ever had to back off that later! Properly done, this could lead him to feel trapped later on, which while we sure didn't want him to feel that within the confines of the clean relationship of his first marriage, we do want him to feel trapped in this possible second marriage.
For that would only lead to him being more prone to commit adultery against this new woman, a few years down the road! For what marriage that started in adultery didn't end in adultery?
But make particularly sure that he burns the bridges to that stricter church well. True, they'd even now accept him back, and still accept him back 20 years from now, but you know how vain these humans are. He won't want to be attending any place in which he looks like some beggar or some wayward one granted the mercy of being there.
That those members and leaders of his former church all are in that state won't occur to him, and indeed, hardly occurs to the leaders of that church who should be aware of that! If the leaders were, they'd probably get more of such types back, by going to them in humility - you know, the "while he was yet far off" verse from the story of the Prodigal Son?
But no, most church leadership is very concerned that they look above reproach, and beyond a bit of lip service gave to "of course we've all sinned" you won't get them to admit any real weakness or sin that could ever make them look "bad" and thus "accessible" to the very sheep who need to access them the most!
Things will be financially and legally dicey for a bit. He'll feel guilty about his kids. Give him the line about how they're better off not being raised by two people not in love! One of our more hilarious lies, as all history - and statistics - show that kids are always better off with a solidly committed couple whether they are moony-spoony over each other or not!
He'll be more under stress. And tired more often. Get him to skip a bit of the new church, too. Get her to join him in skipping out. Not too much, just some. Make church seem like an imposition, when they are still trying to have as much time together as they can. Make every look from any member of that church seem like some kind of look of reproach! "The guilty flee, when no man pursue" and all that!
And ultimately, expressing their adultery in the sex act is more fun than some watery sermon, so use that, too.
He'll be more under stress. And tired more often. Get him to skip a bit of the new church, too. Get her to join him in skipping out. Not too much, just some. Make church seem like an imposition, when they are still trying to have as much time together as they can. Make every look from any member of that church seem like some kind of look of reproach! "The guilty flee, when no man pursue" and all that!
And ultimately, expressing their adultery in the sex act is more fun than some watery sermon, so use that, too.
This will make them both feel a bit guilty, but since they know they really don't belong in church - or so we've taught them to think - they'll go along with it. Later, if they are about to make some kind of resurgent effort to attend church, take a page out of the Master Tempter's book, and let them go church shopping! As Administrator Emeritus Screwtape said, if they must go to church, send them all around to find the "right" one!
Besides all the benefits he outlined, it also means they'll get what they think is very valuable - a fresh start!
They think that will be of value because no one will be there to judge them. And we know it will be valuable because there won't be anyone there to judge them! This means that instead of repenting in any honest way of their adultery, they'll pretend it never took place! And make no mistake - those who can't admit their sins to at least one other person have surely not confessed and repented of it to our Enemy Above!
Oh, it is possible. But in general, the sin hid is the sin un-repented of. The Catholics knew this, but twisted it about so that it had to be one of their leaders to hear the sin. Yet we know that someone must, if it is to be real to these creatures. Some, far advanced in their service to our Enemy Above can simply confess to him, but most need to have confided in a friend, a loved one, or even a sympathetic stranger.
These two will then be - if you can get them to a new (and just as light and fluffy) church - living a lie, pretending to be what they are not, and any relationships they develop there will be based on that lie! This will keep them safe from any real rapport with any there who could ever spiritually aid them, and cause them to be increasingly isolated in their lie, so that the only solace for each of them...is in the arms of their sinning selves!
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
Unbelievable! With all going so well, you let the woman - and thus now the man - get bobbled by one ill timed encounter with someone from his past church, who knew both he and the wife! The church lady didn't even self-righteously scold, but only said in loving kindness that "no good ever came from bad" and that she'd "pray they step back from this relationship for a bit and each try to draw closer again to their Savior"!
Obviously this was not advice your man wanted to hear, but when the woman was struck to the heart by it, he must at least pretend to give lip service to that! I grant you, that Pierceprofit bears the brunt of this for letting it effect her so powerfully without distracting her...but could you not have distracted your boy with the same ready made weapon?
You know which ready made weapon! Our greatest deception, the play on "Judge not, lest ye yourself be judged!"? Ahh, what a wonderful verse that has been for us, wherein we take a specific command, highly situational, about how no one is to judge the final destination, the final fate of another person's soul, and turn it into the utterly false counsel of "never judge another's wrongdoing no matter how blatantly obvious it is that it's wrong!"
None of them ever practice this in the sick and lying way we preach it, of course. A father will certainly "judge" the man who comes over to pick up his daughter, the mother will "judge" whether to duck into a store if she sees some who look like street toughs hanging out on the corner, every day and in every way, they each judge continuously!
Yet they are most ready to accept our false teachings when they need a free pass for themselves or those dear to them! Gay son? "Judge not!" Caught coming out of a hotel room? "Judge not!" Their candidate in another scandal? "Judge not!" Notice how they are only crying out "Judge not!" when it benefits them? Never does the father see the tattooed boyfriend at the door and invite him in saying to himself, "Judge not!"
Not and mean it, anyway!
Not and mean it, anyway!
Why didn't Pierceprofit trot that out for his trampy adulteress to console herself with? Why did you not trot that out for your man? He could have then passed it on to her and been in the sheets with her a half hour later! Instead, she went home alone, having extorted a promise from him to "not call" her till she had time to think!
Time to think! Never, NEVER give these creatures time to think about such matters! This faux Christian, this tramp who went to church for a husband, didn't you and Pierceprofit realize that she'd have picked up a lot of the basic mindset of Christianity by osmosis by now? Why do you think we usually try and keep them away from any church, if not because the real message is so easily transmitted if they are the least receptive to it?
The only good thing, that might possibly salvage the situation, is your previous work in having him burn his bridges, and his lust that you've been carefully exaggerating past all rational bounds! He's with a vaguely semi-attractive type that used to be called "tramp". He imagines he's with some "could have been" model!
So he will even now be receptive to that "judge not" argument, and will pass it on to her, all dressed up, as soon as you're smart enough to share that with him! But it won't be enough for him to simply, at this late time, share that. No, that will have to be a lead in to how "many won't understand" how their love was "meant to be" and that they're actually "soulmates"!
This will be the excuse then that lets them have done what they did - they "had" to! After all, they're soulmates! That there is no such thing as "soulmates" won't occur to them. That any relationship, including the one with his wife, could have worked if only both had simply been determined to make it succeed no matter what, that won't occur to them.
Because both are still ready to seize on any excuse to justify what each secretly knows to be unjustifiable!
Because both are still ready to seize on any excuse to justify what each secretly knows to be unjustifiable!
Go do that now!
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
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To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
To: Simperquill72@juniortempters.hl
From: Bailjam23@seniortempters.hl
Subject: Assignment JH196911022568
You did it perfectly! I watched with dark glee as he left the single rose outside her door, knocked once, and went off to the park across the street! And such a cutely inspired note, "Go to our bench, there is a gift there for you."
And the gift being the tritely obvious one of him sitting there, with an engagement ring!
lol
Hat's off to you and Pierceprofit! All thought of Christ's mercy and love - still nebulous for her - flew out of her head when confronted with the prize she had sought so long! Had she only stayed firm in her resolve to repent, what great Christian man might she have met later?
But now she is stuck with him, and he with her! And her two brats, to be raised by such a pair! Or rather, all that would have been the case, so good on the intent, anyway!
Wasn't what then actually happened a hellishly beautiful sight to see? These two unrepentant sinners, trying to make holy that which was obscene, adding blasphemy to their adultery, and then walking off hand in hand, he with his sinful thoughts of lust, she with her sinful thoughts of avarice, heading back across the street to go up and fornicate again in celebration?
And to be struck down by a car, both instantly dead, now firmly in our grasp, with no further chance of any - however unlikely - repentance?
This will be quite a feather in your cap, you still so new! And how you - before even celebrating - thought to notify Sewerstump and Wheezebone so they could wake her brats and have them sit there alone wondering where mother was and learning to distrust life all the more! Properly done, and especially since they'll be in foster care, we can have them hate that "Christian" who came into their mom's life forever! And thus by extension, Christianity!
But enough! You need to get back to work, we can't have you just sitting about basking in your first taste of success! What have you done for us lately?
lol
There's an Elder at a church who needs your corrupting touch! He's been entirely too successful at aiding new members in getting established and comfortable in church!
That's got to stop!
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
And the gift being the tritely obvious one of him sitting there, with an engagement ring!
lol
Hat's off to you and Pierceprofit! All thought of Christ's mercy and love - still nebulous for her - flew out of her head when confronted with the prize she had sought so long! Had she only stayed firm in her resolve to repent, what great Christian man might she have met later?
But now she is stuck with him, and he with her! And her two brats, to be raised by such a pair! Or rather, all that would have been the case, so good on the intent, anyway!
Wasn't what then actually happened a hellishly beautiful sight to see? These two unrepentant sinners, trying to make holy that which was obscene, adding blasphemy to their adultery, and then walking off hand in hand, he with his sinful thoughts of lust, she with her sinful thoughts of avarice, heading back across the street to go up and fornicate again in celebration?
And to be struck down by a car, both instantly dead, now firmly in our grasp, with no further chance of any - however unlikely - repentance?
This will be quite a feather in your cap, you still so new! And how you - before even celebrating - thought to notify Sewerstump and Wheezebone so they could wake her brats and have them sit there alone wondering where mother was and learning to distrust life all the more! Properly done, and especially since they'll be in foster care, we can have them hate that "Christian" who came into their mom's life forever! And thus by extension, Christianity!
But enough! You need to get back to work, we can't have you just sitting about basking in your first taste of success! What have you done for us lately?
lol
There's an Elder at a church who needs your corrupting touch! He's been entirely too successful at aiding new members in getting established and comfortable in church!
That's got to stop!
Take care,
Bailjam
Assistant Administrator of Damnation
Epilogue:. Charitable Ruling
