Satan Issues a Prime Directive
With apologies to C.S. Lewis
By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
August 16, 2016
A Letter from Satan to his senior and junior devils
My Dear Wormwood,
Our father marvels at the political antics of the Americans and believes that a prime directive is in order to boost the energy and will of his senior and junior Devils. He is issuing this Directive on the American situation to move people closer to us, which, as you know is our father's ultimate goal. This Directive must be read privately and publicly at all major gatherings of devils.
Your abysmal undersecretary
Screwtape
PRIME DIRECTIVE
It would appear that this Trump fellow has dominated both the national arena and public imagination of millions of Americans, as he bombasts his way from one reckless statement to the next. This is, of course, sweet music to our ears. The crazier he sounds the more his followers seem to grow especially and including those idiot evangelicals.
They seem to have lost sight of their terrible two kingdom notions and now believe in an earthly savior in this Trump fellow. This is precisely what you need to encourage in them. You will recall how well we did in the brief reign of Adolph Hitler. The universities and churches quickly rolled over and became irrelevant and it was only that pesky Bonhoeffer fellow that stood in our way and we know what Hitler did to him!
With evangelicals firmly in the camp of Trump, and liberals, women, Hispanics, Blacks and millennials, agnostics and atheists firmly with the Clinton woman there is work to be done.
Keep evangelicals waving the flag for God and country, keep them believing that America is unlike any other country even though there are countries where the middle class is further ahead economically, educationally, quality of life and safety, you must convince them that putting their safety in guns and middle class security aided and abetted by this Trump fellow is where their security lies. Keep them believing in him and taking their eyes off of Him which is our primary objective.
Those evangelical leaders like Dobson, Falwell and Metaxas to name but a few who have rolled over to this Trump fellow is sweet music to our ears. That Dobson claimed Trump was born again, had our father experiencing the closest thing to rapture that we have ever seen. That damnable Kahn fellow almost gave the game away when he said Trump had a "dark heart."
It is the devious Christian half-truth that created Trump. Had he been an atheist no one would have believed him or even listened to him regardless of his alleged billions, but this Norman Vincent Peale fellow has done more for us by teaching a feel-good-about-yourself "gospel" and the power of positive thinking which created the monster Trump. No talk of denying oneself, no mention of sin, salvation, damnation or the Last Judgement, these were notably absent from Peale's public utterances. He created the perfect storm in a man like Trump telling him how wonderful he is and you can have it all. I can assure you Peale is with us here and he is not feeling remotely good about himself.
The Clinton woman has always been with us. Her liberal Methodism is the root of her kingdom of heaven on earth utopian version of the good life devoid of anything transcendent. It is keeping millions from thinking about their souls and their ultimate destiny.
America is in free fall and accelerating almost by the day. Underneath the much vaunted talk of capitalism lies the dark heart of greed. Beneath the new forms of sexual liberation lies the dark forces of lust. Work on this. Delude, delude, delude.
Keep people believing in themselves, indulging in New Age forms of self-aggrandizement, exalting the self and propelling self-esteem. Keep the culture of celebrity alive. Push it, plug it, ply it. Under no circumstances must people be allowed to think of anything apart from their personal satisfaction and fulfillment. Any thought about the destiny of their souls must be squelched. The world and the flesh is all and everything people need to live for. Talk up the good life, success and 'you can have it all', and keep the gospel of peace and prosperity ever before them. We understand that it has a name - 'moralistic therapeutic deism'. Excellent.
Trump may lose but Clinton will load the Supreme Court with liberals and destroy religious freedom through her choices for the Supreme Court. If that happens, the light set on a hill will go out and America's cherished freedoms will finally be lost.
It will be our final victory. America is ours and we will mop up the final detractors.
Devilishly yours,
Satan