SCREWTAPE PROPOSES AN EPISCOPAL TOAST (18)
SCREWTAPE PROPOSES AN EPISCOPAL TOAST (18)
With Apologies to C.S. Lewis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
December 26, 2011
My dear Wormwood,
It is hard not to imagine the enormous damage this Jefferts Schori woman is doing to her church and faith. I doubt we could have come up with someone like her - a woman who spent most of her early life examining squid and then does a 180-degree turn and examines Scripture with the clinical detachment of a plate of fried calamari. Our Father says she will be given first class accommodations when she arrives here, at least for a while, but never enough ease for the torment that will follow.
She has undermined their wretched faith and the weak-willed House of Bishops who follows her like lemmings over a cliff. They are simply unaware (or refuse to see) that she has given the whole shop away....to us. There is always the concern, though we admit rather limited, that the penny might suddenly drop as the church slowly empties and she as Presiding Bishop declare a "national state of calamity". With your help this will not happen.
It never ceases to amaze us, Wormwood. In the old days, we had to work hard for converts. Newer atheists like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris (to name perhaps the three most famous examples) proudly proclaim from whatever atheistic minaret they can find that the idea of God is a delusion, that the God of the Bible is not great, and that "faith" should be are our best advertisers. They were difficult converts, but once seduced, they became some of our best agent provocateurs. They are, of course, the heirs of such minds as A. J. Ayers, H.G. Wells and the Bloomsbury set. Wells' book Mind at the End of its Tether almost gave the whole game away. Mercifully the book never went viral.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
With Apologies to C.S. Lewis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
December 26, 2011
My dear Wormwood,
It is hard not to imagine the enormous damage this Jefferts Schori woman is doing to her church and faith. I doubt we could have come up with someone like her - a woman who spent most of her early life examining squid and then does a 180-degree turn and examines Scripture with the clinical detachment of a plate of fried calamari. Our Father says she will be given first class accommodations when she arrives here, at least for a while, but never enough ease for the torment that will follow.She has undermined their wretched faith and the weak-willed House of Bishops who follows her like lemmings over a cliff. They are simply unaware (or refuse to see) that she has given the whole shop away....to us. There is always the concern, though we admit rather limited, that the penny might suddenly drop as the church slowly empties and she as Presiding Bishop declare a "national state of calamity". With your help this will not happen.
It never ceases to amaze us, Wormwood. In the old days, we had to work hard for converts. Newer atheists like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris (to name perhaps the three most famous examples) proudly proclaim from whatever atheistic minaret they can find that the idea of God is a delusion, that the God of the Bible is not great, and that "faith" should be are our best advertisers. They were difficult converts, but once seduced, they became some of our best agent provocateurs. They are, of course, the heirs of such minds as A. J. Ayers, H.G. Wells and the Bloomsbury set. Wells' book Mind at the End of its Tether almost gave the whole game away. Mercifully the book never went viral.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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