My favorite C.S. Lewis book is "The Screwtape Letters", in which the demon Screwtape is advising his nephew Wormwood in the art of tempting believers in Christ into sin or, at least, apathy. In that vein, though not with Lewis' talent, I have created a series of emails from a demon in charge of child sacrifice to his boss, Satan.
Email:
From: Mmolechson@satansrealm.gov/deptofinhumanservices
To: Dragon@darkworld.gov
Most Majestic Evil Master, 312 A.D
Please forgive my use of the human designation of the year, I know you have plans to change it in the future to remove any acknowledgment of the life of Christ, but for now it is convenient. As the demon you have appointed in charge of child sacrifice I thought I should give a status report. Just as you planned, through many different religions, rulers, and mortal realms, child sacrifice numbers have remained steady. My current concern is that in Rome, where you have had so much freedom to further your agenda, Emperor Constantine appears to have converted to Christianity. Even in my department, I have heard reports that your deputies assigned to Rome believe he might make Christianity its official religion. Christian teachings always interfere with your master plan and this could have a detrimental effect on the number of babies sacrificed to idols. The timing is also a problem, because the Roman Empire itself is in decline. Is there a plan to assist my department in case of this contingency?
Malacious Molechson
Reply:
As you know well, I have prepared many alternate schemes. My agents infiltrated our enemy's church from the beginning, and will use the establishment of Christianity as Rome's official religion to further assert my influence. When the church becomes a path to political power and wealth, men allied with me will hold its highest offices. And, since our enemy plans to replace the Roman kingdom soon anyway, I will accept a decrease in your quota as long as you maintain human sacrifice levels in the less "civilized" cultures where I still hold sway.
MEEM
Most Exalted Evil Master, 1850
Your plan to replace child sacrifice with abortion is going very well. Mortal mothers are less willing to kill a baby after it is born than when the process is sight unseen. The delusion that the unborn child is not really alive until the mother can feel movement, what they call the "quickening," is well accepted. Besides, when contraception is not reliable, available, and in some jurisdictions even legal, abortion becomes, by default, not murder but birth control. Up until this time, abortion has mostly been the purview of midwives and sellers of folk remedies, but doctors in the newly formed medical associations now feel they should control our business and have begun to spread the long suppressed truth that life begins at conception. Even worse, some do gooders, in the name of women's rights, claim it is abusive for husbands, lovers, pimps, etc. to make women abort babies against their will. Business has been very good, but I'm afraid there may be a downturn.
MMolechson
Reply:
Do not doubt me, my simple servant, focus on the end game! In the context of my long term plan to separate mortals from their Maker, these setbacks to my agenda are temporary and unimportant. Humans are not wise enough to remember, much less learn from, their past. I do not even need to create new lies, I just reword and recycle my age old ones.
MEEM
Most Exalted Evil Master 1973
Congratulations on your great victory in the Roe vs. Wade decision! Your brilliant strategy of removing prayer, and every vestige of Christian values from public schools has paved the way for this success. I expect many years of exceeding our previous quotas. But I am concerned that improvements in medical technology may make it possible to see the development of their infants from shortly after conception. This may dispel the illusion that aborted babies are just blobs of tissue. If human mothers can view their unborn children, they may decide not to sacrifice them.
MMolechson
Reply:
I have, of course, already anticipated this. Medical science cannot stand up to a simple human slogan. For now, my puppet, Planned Parenthood, is promoting the slogan, "Every child a wanted child." When that one weakens because so many couples want to adopt those children, I will inspire them to make one about a woman's right to control her own body. After all, viewing other humans as property worked well to justify slavery for a long time.
MEEM
Most Exalted Evil Master 2022
I am devastated at the news that Roe vs. Wade was overturned. I was sure you had enough operatives in the Supreme Court to continue the ruse that the U.S. Constitution upholds the right to abortion. Some states have already made abortion less accessible. Without support from upper management I cannot meet my expected death quotas.
MMolechson
Reply:
Do not underestimate me! My agenda is advancing as planned. During the years in which abortion was enshrined as a right (their terminology reveals the success of my worship campaign, though I prefer they call it a rite), human life was so devalued that mass shootings of school children, coworkers, and random people in public venues are common occurrences. Many mortals are unable to tell the difference between my terrorists and their victims. And my "hate speech" propaganda campaign has convinced many that people who disagree with them deserve to die. My delusion that humans can determine for themselves what is right and wrong, true and false, has dominated man's thinking since Eden. I am not concerned about this small setback, many mortals still proclaim my abortion distortion propaganda as true. Where killing the most innocent of beings is considered acceptable, death reigns. I reign and remain--
Most Exalted Evil Master
