The Fact of godlike Human power (A letter from Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood)

Wormwood

Dearest Wormwood,

What has motivated your doubt in the fact of Human global warming.

The scientific-media has gone to great lengths to console the carnal populace with the knowledge that they may all, individually, have a godlike power over the fact of this Human imposed warmth.

I am concerned that you are giving up on the fact of Human global warming, so easily.

Dearest nephew Wormwood, you must be aware of the vast amounts of blood and treasure, (not to mention the “hot air” a.k.a. warm CO2), which has been spilled by our sacred & faithful scientific-media fathers, all of which has been done with sanctimonious piety, (as provided by the pROUD sPIRIT of our father down below), and this hard labor has been done so that these mortals may take a prideful comfort, in the fact that indeed, there exists an Human power to provide global HVAC to the masses.

My dear little worm, I recognize that you, probably, remain hopeful that Earth may be moving into a warming era of Human history, not unlike our blessed home beyond the Styx, however nephew, If you should be so FOOLISH as to deny the fact of Human culpability in the warmth issue, then you are, by necessary inference, denying the almost divine power of the fact of secular Humanism.

My wormy little nephew, you also appear to be denying the fact that secular Human activities holds the power to alternately, provide either perdition or salvation by the shear force of Human will.

Are you daft? Do you not have enough sense to know that Humans must, at all costs, have and hold a proud comfort in their ability to “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps”?

You must understand that any silly little consession by you, (a very junior Tempter), is an unforgivable sacrilege, and the penalty for such heresy is no small matter.

Lest you think that our adversary’s quaint little book should hold any sway over our father down below, please remember that he is only bemused by the words “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.”

Therefore, my most wormy little kin, you must, with all haste, confirm in your patient’s heart & mind, that Human activity is the only physical matter, that holds power to “save”. Whatever “save” means is irrelevant, because Humans rarely take time to consider such words in anything other than a temporal sense.

Carnal blessings,

Your Affectionate Uncle Screwtape