Dear sweet baby,
it was with
great concern that I received the news that a small church is about to be
established in City. For a long time we have regarded this corner, which was
said to be forgotten by God and man, as our sovereign kingdom. The people who
live in City associate the Church just with what they see on TV, then with the
scandals of priests and with and political and anti-abortion activities. Sometimes
some from people City go to midnight mass once a year, or young people get
married in church, but we don't have to worry about that. It's great when they are
calling these activities faith. We want and work hard to make people see the
church as a useless organization.
This image
needs to be promoted, and your task for the coming months is to spread this
image even more diligently among ordinary people of City. This should be the
way how they will look on the emerging church here. If you succeed, we will transfer
you to a larger city for a reward, and you will be given a better name. In the
meantime, you must prove your worth in this place in the unpleasant situation
that has arisen. We're angry that you let the situation get this far, but we're
giving you a chance to correct your mistake.
We've
always had trouble with the church. Since the extremely regrettable and
embarrassing event called Pentecost, we have been trying to destroy it, but so
far we have not succeeded. Yet we do not believe, as the Book says, that our
gates will not prevail against her. One day we will destroy it for good, we
just don't know when.
One of the
paradoxes of history is that it has often been the Church itself that has
worked for its destruction. Sometimes it has gone so far as to forbid people to
read the Book, sometimes, to our infinite delight, the Church itself has
distorted and twisted the teachings of the Enemy. At those times we told
ourselves that the Church was committing suicide, but for some reason unknown
to us Church always survived. Later on, our Church Destruction Department investigated
this phenomenon and concluded that the church, for all its failures, is
apparently still the Enemy's bride, the Enemy's building, a people belonging to
the Enemy, the Enemy's flock, the Enemy's body... We do not understand at all
how our Enemy can say or have written such a thing about such a stupid and silly
people.
One of the
reasons why the Enemy uses these and other adjectives in connection with the
church is probably a virtue that we do not understand but that the Enemy often speaks
of, and that virtue is love. Our ministry long time has been researching the
nature of this virtue, but the research is still in process. We are replacing
the word love with weakness, and that is how I wish you would think of love.
As I have
written, when the church came into being, we reacted very quickly and almost
immediately did the best to destroy it. Emperors, generals, soldiers, whole
armies of spies and informers became the instruments for the destruction of the
Church. Thousands who thought themselves Christians were liquidated. To this
day, many of us feel an indescribable joy when we remember the burning torches of
the human bodies of the followers of the Enemy, when others were thrown to the
lions in the arenas, or when others denied the Enemy out of fear.
We laughed
at the strong saying that the blood of martyrs being the seed of new
Christians. On the contrary, we were convinced that the blood of the martyrs
would become the bloody river in which Christianity would drown. But time
passed and nothing happened. The enemy's followers, in spite of all that our
infernal department had prepared for them, not only survived, but grew.
We puzzled
over it until finally our Father Devil came up with an idea that could only
come from his brilliant mind. He remembered that many, many years ago he had an
audience with the Enemy and spoke to him about a man named Job. Job was a man devoted
to the Enemy, and the Enemy was proud of this fellow. Then our Father told the
Enemy a truly brilliant thought. The reason why not only Job but many of your
followers believe you is because they have all what they need. In reality, faith
in Enemy is just a lucky trade. If you were to look at Job's wealth, health,
and family, you would see that the reason for his devotion is solely for
personal gain. People, including Job, will stop trusting you if you take
anything from them. That's exactly what we did with the early Christians.
It was a
great idea, but Job, despite all our calculations, remained loyal to the Enemy.
He stayed faithful even his wife asked him to curse the Enemy. It didn't work
out for us, but thanks to our Father, we remembered an important idea from the
story of Job. When people get it wrong, their faith sometimes gets deeper. The
result is this: Sometimes it's harder to follow the Enemy not in scarcity - Job
handled that - but in abundance.
And that is
why our Church Destruction Department has come up with a different tactic in
fighting the Church. He gradually stopped the cruel persecution of the
followers of the Enemy and gave them wealth and power instead of disgrace and
misery. The poor and persecuted church gradually became one of the most
powerful institutions in the world.
Weakness
replaced power, poverty replaced wealth, and humiliation replaced glory. The
worship of the Enemy and his son Jesus was replaced by the worship of various
places, statues, images and sacred things. The more flamboyant the church
became, the more we rejoiced in moving away from the teachings of the Enemy.
There were still some groups that pointed to what I am describing, but they did
not have a key influence and were eventually eliminated by the church itself.
At that time we thought that the Church was definitely coming to its end. But
the Enemy, for the reasons I have indicated, which are probably connected with
his love for the Church, did not allow it.
If you listened carefully, the church was not destroyed by persecution and scarcity, but rather by abundance and wealth. We have observed over the centuries that the more people create an earthly paradise, the more they will forget the paradise that the Enemy operates. Think carefully about everything I've told you.
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