A Diabolical, Nostalgic Plan

A Diabolical, Nostalgic Plan | Michael Coren | Catholic World Report



"Division. We love it, we relish it, we eat and drink it, we splash around in the bath of it."

Dear
Wormwood,

Your
uncle is, as you know, a little—how shall we say?—distracted
right now, and as I am considered something of an expert when it
comes to Christians of the Catholic variety, I’ve been asked to
help out a little.

I’ve
looked at the files on your man, and you need to be extremely careful
here. The believers on what the humans call the “left” of their
church are easy. We’ve managed to convince them that salvation is
to be found in social programs, liberal politics, and making jokes
about conservatives. We’ve done a wonderful job in making it all
about politics for them—all about the good they think they can
do—and the angrier they become at those they see as their earthly
enemies, the further they move away from their god. It’s very
successful, and such great fun too. The joke is that they hardly
change anything anyway, but the better and more pompous they feel
about themselves the less humble and more strident they are, and that
makes our enemy even more upset and disappointed.

Anyway,
more about that and them later. You see, your little man is of the
other variety, the conservatives. They’re much more tricky. They’ve
seen through our propaganda campaign—“everything in the past was
wrong”, “we have to change with the times”, “intelligent
people don’t believe that” and so on. We’ve tried using doubt,
confusion, fear, and the truly delicious “apathy” but it doesn’t
work on them. So, let me suggest another approach. It’s what I like
to call nostalgia. Try to make them confuse Catholicism with history,
and faith with living in the past.

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