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Strumpet!
I tried texting you on my new phone, but I keep doing what the human younglings call ‘fat finger’ the keyboard, so decided to write an actual letter instead. Well, I say letter, this is an email, but same difference.
Our Father Below is very happy with the state of the world right now and has tasked the Education Department to develop new techniques to make even further inroads into The Enemy’s territory. As a result, I was talking to one of the muckity-mucks here at the university and we decided we need some victims, ah, I mean volunteers to test our newest methods. I remembered your new charge with that ridiculous name, Daphne, is it? Their lives are so short and insignificant I can’t remember who is still on earth and who has joined us here for eternity – anyway, I digress…
We have done a good job of manipulating language to change the meaning of words. Remember when the word ‘opinion’ meant ‘something that might not be true, but it’s what I think’? We have cleverly replaced that with the phrase, ‘my truth’. It’s the same thing but putting in the word ‘truth’ cheapens it. Now when one of those infantile humans reads Our Enemy’s nonsensical Book and see the words, “I am the Way, the Truth…” seeds of doubt are sown. Isn’t that genius? I came up with that one, by the way.
In order to see how successfully we can infiltrate the ch- chu- no, I can type this, the church – we need you! Well, not you, per se, but your absurd human. If you’ve played her right, she will be susceptible and open to suggestion, am I right? We need weak-minded beings, ones who won’t go running to The Enemy at the first sign of trouble. Have you fed her the lie that she can do everything on her own? That, “I am woman, hear me roar”?
If so, that’s perfect. We have discovered, through trial and error that the creatures who think they are the strongest because they can do everything on their own; the ones who think they are totally independent and need nothing, are the easiest to manipulate. They think it is weak to talk to others, to ask for help; when in fact we know (although we hate it) that these stupid creatures are at their strongest when they go to The Enemy and ask for help!
So, we need to start the steady drip-drip of language manipulation in faithful church-goers. If we can get them to start using watered-down linguistics whilst studying Our Enemy’s ludicrous tome, we can make great in-roads. Of course, this is just one area of attack. My good friend, and your godfather, Dagon, has a team of professors working in the universities, and Belphegor has successfully infiltrated what the humans call ‘the media’.
I will send along the newly developed curriculum in the next day or so. I expect you to disseminate it amongst your peers as soon as; and then report your findings to me immediately.
To continued success!
Your loving Aunt
Diabolica
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