A Page From Lucifer’s Playbook

On 07.16.10, in Government, Religion, by Sad Hill

C.S. Lewis forecasts the dangerous times we live in — government channeling faith away from God.

“Whichever he adopts, your main task will be the same. Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. The let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and gradually nurse him onto the stage at which the religion becomes merely a part of the ‘cause’, in which Christianity is valued chiefly because of the excellent arguments it can produce in favour of the British war-effort or of Pacifism. The attitude which you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs are treated primarily as material for obedience. 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 The Screwtape Letters

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  9. [...] Naturally, the smug and other lost souls aching to fill the void in their lives, instinctively, helplessly, swarm to Utopia. In doing so they gamble away their whole-life investment by unquestionably supporting big government as it effortlessly channels true hope and true faith away from God. [...]

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