My Dear Screwtape,
It seems
you are making excellent progress with your band of misfits and our stocks are
quite high…for now. But like any other organization, our delight is tempered by
higher expectations. The better your
performance, the more our expectations grow.
There are no plateaus in Hell.
In line
with this thinking, I will advise you on your question of abortion. It is a
topic which causes tremendous excitement down here. It does so because it is
one of the few areas where almost all roads lead here. It is very easy for us
to capture any human who possesses a strong opinion of the matter one way or
another. So we do well pulling these strings on His puppets.
First, let
us consider those against the procedure. They view it as murder and therefore
see it as wrong and wish to abolish it. Within any one of these groups there is
a leader – one who claims to infallibly know the will of our Enemy and wishes
to spend eternity with Him. Here, we take a line from scripture: Strike the
shepherd and the sheep will be disbursed! Find his weak spot and press it. Our
colleagues in the IT (Individual Temptation) department can help immensely with
this. They will be interested in getting that individual down here, and your
team must be interested in making such a journey as public as possible so we
can grab his followers like lemmings off a cliff. I am copying Dungwart on this
correspondence so he is aware of what we’re attempting and can assist accordingly.
Secondly,
for those considering the option we must take careful stock of where they are
situated on our journey. If we have them mostly well-in-hand, it might do us
better to steer them away from the procedure and toward having and keeping the
child. Humans who are already on their way here – those who have succumbed and
whose hearts have already been sufficiently hardened – would give us the extra
benefit of passing this stubborn selfishness onto their offspring with little
effort on our part.
Make available
to them messages which talk of how having a child makes them feel. Not real love mind you, but that
wretched warmth they get when being the object of another’s affection. I know,
I know – it’s a revolting thought, but remember we’re interested in the long
game here. This reinforces in the mind of the subject that the child’s sole
purpose is to please the mother. Not
in any permanent sense, of course, but in the temporary moments of a baby’s
cuteness. Therefore, when the child is not being cute – i.e. when it requires
something of its parents – it is not fulfilling its obligation and is to be
punished for being bad. That’s our hook, my friend. The child is to be no more
than an object of entertainment. These individuals often know this routine well
from experiencing similar punishment from their own parents. Abuse is a most
effective tactic.
But before
you intend to proceed along this route, make sure their heart is sufficiently
hardened. The symptoms of such resoluteness usually include some kind of
addiction – drugs or alcohol, it doesn’t matter. What you must avoid are any
feelings of legitimate guilt a parent may feel from treating their child
poorly. Shame, on the other hand is fine, let them believe they are a bad
parent and that they can never be a good one. Our daytime talk shows do wonders
for encouraging this. Pride is better – “I’m this way because I love my kids
and I’m better than those fools on TV.” If they can justify their abuse this
way, we’ve really hit the jackpot.
The third
group, and one of the hardest to hold on to, are those that have actually
terminated a pregnancy. The fact that someone having and keeping their
offspring yields longer term benefits for us, is certainly counterintuitive but
true nevertheless. Because of the Enemy’s abominable capability for
forgiveness, one who has had an abortion may always be welcomed back into His
graces with a sufficient degree of guilt and faith in His eternal benevolence. They
are lost to us at this point unless we can make them proud and turn them into
those types who protest and insult those whom they resembled just a brief time
ago.
The aim in
these circumstances is to encourage their memory to dwell on uncivil
confrontations between them and the so-called pro-life camp. Because the pro-lifers
claim to represent the Enemy, those who ultimately decide on an abortion are
inclined to think: “If God chooses these jerks to represent Him, I want no part
of Him.” This puts the individual well on our path though it requires effort to
keep them there. If they ultimately decide against abortion, we convert them to
the rabid pro-life camp where they will make their way to us by encouraging
others to reject the God they claim to represent. Their intentions may be
otherwise but that matters little to us.
The
ultimate victory is encouraging the procedure because they feel ashamed of
their actions and wish to hide what they did. This causes a rift between them
and the loved ones from whom they hide their torment. Torment is something
humans are incapable of handling alone and if used properly leads to suicide
which is the ultimate act of despair and, therefore, an express ticket to Our
Father Below. If it doesn’t lead to torment directly, it leads to indifference,
which leads to repetitions of the same battle and the more battles we win, the
more ground the Enemy loses. Then, it becomes simply a matter of time.
So, to
summarize: The consciousness of the abortion conundrum among the humans by
itself lends us tremendous advantage. The three main types: 1) The rabid
pro-lifer, 2) The abusive mother, and 3) The unfazed serial abortion patient,
all present advantageous opportunities to achieve our goals. There are only two
narrow yet strong bridges which the Enemy has managed to keep for those in this
camp: 1) The path of humble penitence for the sin, and 2) The strength He so
readily provides to those who carry their children to term only to make the
willful and disciplined decision to give it up to someone else capable and
desirous of raising children.
If you can
keep them out of these last two areas, our success will be great.
Your Merciful
Master,
Slubgob
Cc: Dungwart, Senior VP of
Operations for Individual Temptation and Soul Procurement
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