[GCFL-discuss] Screwtape

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

ROFL nice!
I'm overly amazed at how Sheltered my brother and I have been accused of
while growing up.
Now as I'm 28 I see all these other families that I look at and question how
my childhood could EVER be called Sheltered. Some of the wild and crazy
things I see families do blows my mind, all in the name of "protecting my
kids"

~Lance
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List
<gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:

> OK, enough politics until tomorrow. Anyone want to talk about Halloween?
>
> I received an email invitation from the C.S. Lewis Foundation, which
> began...
>
> Dear Wormwood,
>
> It has recently come to my attention that your patient is considering
> going on retreat at the C.S. Lewis Foundation's Southwest Regional
> Retreat. This simply will not do, particularly because the retreat takes
> place in a few weeks on a weekend that's increasingly sacred to us:
> October 31 to November 2.
>
> Rather than allowing the subject of your machinations to enjoy the
> company of humans dedicated to Our Enemy Above, you should have your
> patient go to Halloween festivities more in keeping with our tastes and
> including the proper sort of vices.
>
>
> C.S. Lewis is worthy of continued study, but I decline to turn Halloween,
> one of my favorite holidays, over the devils, so I replied:
>
> Dear Screwtape,
>
> That was a clever trick, impersonating the C.S. Lewis Foundation to trick
> me into abandoning the observation of Halloween, which as YOU well know,
> although you thought I was too dumb to realize it, is the most
> EMBARASSING holiday of the year to you and to your "Father Below."
>
> Well Screwtape, I laugh at you, I ridicule you, I will gladly help
> children dress up as ridiculous caricatures of you and your nephew,
> because YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER US. Your Father, that proud if impotent
> spirit, cannot bear to be mocked. And mock you all we will, as we
> supervise children who will never be yours, cheerfully trick or treating
> among their equally cheerful neighbors again this year.
>
>
> The foundation's Director of Communications took the response in good
> humor.
>
> Siarlys
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