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by Sean C. Capparuccia

Dec. 27, 2021

It has been quite a while since we have had a glimpse into Screwtape’s correspondance with Wormwood.  Here, in a recent letter found in an undisclosed place, is what appears to be a rather recent letter. 

My dear Wormwood,

          I’ve been observing your work now for untold centuries and though, at times, I can honestly say that you had truly vexed me with, what shall I say here… a kind of incompetence – no, that may be too strong – an ineptitude, I can now honestly say that you have done me proud.  You have done us all proud.  I am finally feeling a sense of hope that we may just prevail against this utter wickedness called the Church. 

          As you know the European countries gave in to us long ago; the followers of that usurper (I won’t name him here) are seemingly small in number and have learned to keep to themselves.  But the United States has always been an extremely tough nut to crack.  The men and women who founded that nation had the wherewithal to learn from their old countries and actually write into their founding a freedom of worship.  Now, at first we were taken aback by that.  Since it was the Enemy’s religion that they were seeking freedom for, it seemed like a total loss to us.  It has been difficult as you well know to control the Enemy’s followers through the government.  In fact, most of the people in the very same government were in the Enemy’s pocket to begin with.  When America was founded, all hell broke loose. 

          Since its founding it had become the world’s leader in missionary efforts, giving aid to poorer countries, an all-around major exporter of “goodness and righteousness” (it makes me want to spew green vomit just to say it).  Whenever we were able to raise up men whom we could control and give them grandiose ideas of world dominance these damned Americans were always willing to jump in and put an end to it.  We coaxed that guy Marx into preaching a revolution for our cause; the Americans fought it at every turn.  Yes, we had our victories over the years.  You were able to get our man Darwin’s ideas into the public schools, and most of these fools believe it to be fact.  And, yes, you swayed those Supreme Court justices in the 70’s to make a way for them to legalize the killing of their infants – which, by the way was one of the most beautiful things since the days of King Herod, bless his heart.  But, unfortunately, it just wasn’t enough.  The Enemy raised up powerful apologists that always seemed to have logic on their side.  And the Enemy’s people, by and large, would not kill their own babies which, in the end, wasn’t helping us much.

          But now, Wormwood, now the tables have turned.  Oh, I admit that I thought all was lost.  That’s why I haven’t communicated with you in so long.  I blamed you – your incomp… your ineptitude.  But now I see that I should have been a bit more patient.  I don’t blame you anymore.  I see it now.  All the while you had been working on certain people in their government and waiting for the right time.  Wormwood.  You’ve finally done it!  And all hell rejoices!  Of course, you understand that all you know you learned from me, your dear Uncle Screwtape, but you have finally showed some major promise.  You have finally taken the wings of hell and have learned to fly a little. 

          All this time we had been focusing on the morality of these fools.  We had been trying our damnedest to get them to break the Enemy’s laws so that they would be ours.  But every time we thought we were winning, the cursed promise of the crucified one kept reminding them that they were forgiven.  Forgiven!  And believing it they would renew their relationship to him.  (Excuse me, allow me to vomit again.)  Yet now is our time!  Oh hellilujah, now is our time.  It’s not about morality in and of itself; now we can get at the heart of the matter.  We have finally been able to get them to stop worshipping the Enemy on his terms (which, as you know, is not really worship at all.)  With this tiny, nearly invisible virus that you helped create with the help of many of their scientists, we have caused so much fear in them that they are now willing to give up worship just to feel “safe.”  I thought we had done that when we moved sports games to Sundays and they lost their youth, but many would eventually come back when they discovered they wouldn’t be career athletes.  I thought sex and drugs would overcome them, but many would eventually come back when the Enemy convinced them that those were empty.  But to disrupt their desire to worship – that is golden.  All that megalomaniac ever wanted was to be freely worshipped by his people.  Our father, Lucifer, was the first one to have the guts to say, “No, I will not worship you,” and our cause was born.  Now all we have to do is plant one actual Covid case – maybe even just one false positive test – in a congregation, and they’ll shut their doors.  It’s beautiful!

          But I sell you short, dear nephew.  It doesn’t stop there.  You have raised up a leader who is willing to ignore their own Constitution and mandate the closing of any business or church as he wishes.  It has been unheard of until now, and until now that constitution has been the bane of our work in this country.  But now the people that the Enemy has in his pulpits by and large are going right along with it.  They are more driven by fear – of our virus and of their job security – than by the fear of their own god.  This is finally the turning of the tables.  If America falls, the world will fall.

          Now, Wormwood, I want you to be sure that you still have our minions working on the Chinese, Russian, and Isis leaders so that when America is at a weak enough level, they will be ready to move in.  Also, continue working on those who are most susceptible to our voice, and keep churning out the news articles that stir things up in favor of our cause.  Rest assured, dear nephew, these new Americans are not like the ones from long ago who would actually fight for their beliefs.  No, these new ones will jump at any chance, get on any bandwagon, follow after any fad that will get them out of having to stand firm for the Enemy’s cause.  But there are still a few; and those few are who we’re really after.  Just as in the early days when the so-called “martyrs” would not go for any of your wiles and the whole blasted movement exploded.  They are precisely why we’re in the mess we’re in now.  And because of that we must snuff out this remnant now.  It only takes a few bad apples, they say. 

          So, while the Enemy’s people keep holding to what they believe is right, we will hit them from the far left.  Oh, yes, Karl Marx may have failed in his time, but those ideas we put in his head have survived and will be the ruin of the Enemy’s pride.  I believe we have worked up enough jealousy in the hearts of many other nations so that when the fall occurs, no one will come to their aid.  In fact, no one would dare.  We have a plan in place that will eventually prevent anyone who doesn’t follow us from buying or selling, from traveling, from even going to the grocery store to get food.  And because of the words of our prophets over the decades most of the Enemy’s unsuspecting fools are looking for a man to bring this ruin.  Maybe even a man with horns on his head, ha, ha.  Little do they know that it’s not a man but a government; an economy; a system.  They will be quite surprised.  The Enemy’s followers will shrivel up and die for lack of any of the material necessities for life.  And here’s the best part: the rest of the humans will not aid them believing they are doing humanity a service “for the greater good” as our man Marx articulated it.   

           Wormwood; nephew, we’ve done it!  The world is ours.  We will just keep bidin’ our time until all is complete.