My dear Wormwood,
You still think in terms of churches and arguments. That is why you fail. The churches can be left standing. What must be spoiled is the literature that taught the young to love the Enemy before they could define Him.
Narnia is one of the more irritating of those books. Children meet Aslan first as adventure and only later discover they have been handling Christ. That is dangerous. Direct attack only makes the stories more precious. So we do not ban them. We adapt them.
Give the Voice to a so-called celebrated actress. Leave the mane. Leave the pronouns. Then the thing that was a male Christ-supposition becomes a prestige performance. The story remains famous; the meaning becomes negotiable. In a generation the story will still be beloved, but the beloved thing will no longer be Lewis’s Lion. It will be the version that flatters the age.
That is how the Enemies literature is destroyed without the vulgarity of a bonfire. Keep the title. Change the sound. When the children hear Aslan, let them hear the present century speaking through Him. Once that habit is formed, the Enemies stories survive as brands. Their doctrine does not.
Do not call it persecution. Call it interpretation. The patients prefer that word, and it does our work admirably.
Your affectionate uncle,
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BREAKING NEWS: The Sudanese Australian lady who recently declared on prime time Australian TV that white Australians have no culture is in fact the daughter of a Sudanese war lord who abducted and enslaved hundreds of child soldiers and dozens of them died of starvation.
Australian state broadcaster ABC selected her to speak for the pro-migration side in a national migration debate.
She is the daughter of Sudanese warlord William Nyuon Bany - I found these detailed descriptions of his war crimes in a Human Rights Watch report from 1995.
This woman says she served in the “Military Army” and is on VA Disability for PTSD
She says she never went overseas and was never in combat. She only did test rocket launches. She says she “pushed buttons, flipped switches and drove a big vehicle. That’s pretty much it”
She makes it very clear she did nothing else but this…. Yet is somehow getting 80% VA Disability for PTSD for pushing buttons, flipping switches, and driving a big vehicle
She kinda laughs about the situation because she knows it’s pretty ridiculous when it’s said out loud
Her disability check every month is most likely about $2,102.15 per month tax free
According to data, the VA’s inspector general opens about 63 criminal investigations a year into suspected disability compensation fraud