Monday, June 05, 2006
Screwtape Writes About Godblogging...
...well at least some of us Godbloggers.
...the strongest and most beautiful of vices -- Spiritual PrideRelated Tags: godblogging, spiritual pride
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He must be made to feel (he'd better not put into words) 'how different we Christians are'; and by 'we Christians' he must really, but unknowingly, mean 'my set'; and by 'my set' he must mean not 'The people who in thier charity and humility, have accepted me', but 'The people with whom I associate by right'.
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Some theories which he may meet in modern Christian circles may here prove helpful; theories, I mean, that place the hope of society in some inner ring of 'clerks', some trained minority of theocrats. It is no affair of yours whether those theories are true or false; the great thing is to make Christianity a mystery religion in which he feels himself one of the initiates.
