17 tactics from The Scretape Letters
the 17 tactics mrs cook came up with for the screwtape letters. does not have to be memorized for exam 2007
"tactics for enticing a christian to "our father below""
"tactics for enticing a christian to "our father below""
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- Tactic 17
- Keep his charitable efforts distant from him won enviorment -- Foreign missions is good as opposed to helping poverty-stricken, close to him.
- Tactic 14
- Use humor to make sin feel/ appear acceptable
- Tactic 13
- Give him a cause (Patriot, Pacifist, Anti-abortion etc.). Make him a radical
- Tactic 15
- Keep Prayer immature/ evaluate by how he feels or how appropriate it sounds
- Tactic 9
- Cause him to rely on his emotions/ feelings, rather than intellect
- Tactic 6
- Keep his thoughts centered on "self"
- Tactic 5
- Encourage him to church-hop
- Tactic 12
- Keep jargon more important that argument or reason
- Tactic 3
- Keep his mind/ attention on "real" things
- Tactic 11
- Acculturate him -- so he will become a social chameleon, adjusting his lifestyle and speech to whatever group he is with
- Tactic 7
- Keep his relations in a tense state, so that other's faults are magnified.
- Tactic 10
- Have him think of God as a pictoral/ icon/ visual image
- Tactic 8
- Keep him bling to his own faults
- Tactic 4
- Keep him confused - "hazy" in his thinking - no absolutes!
- Tactic 16
- Cause him to think that down or bad times are permanent
- Tactic 2
- Keep him from thinking about death
- Tactic 1
- Have him think of the devil as a stereotype