B. U. G. S.

Derek, you said,

“feeling guilt is not the same as being moral.”

That reminds me of a piece of advice the Senior Tempter of Hell, Screwtape, gave to his novice nephew on getting someone into Hell.

Screwtape advised Wormwood that if a person does “fall victim” to good beliefs, they can still be rendered harmless if the person can be satisfied with FEELING good feelings.

No harm done, said Screwtape, if hte person DOES nothing about knowing what is right.

If I were in Satan’s camp, and I was in politics so I was close enough to know, I would encourage people to limit the Golden Rule to THIS generation. They would not want to LOOK like the children Tiger Wood and his blond Swedish wife will produce, so they concentrate entirely on the joy that Woods and his wife have by “being in love.”

The children simply do not matter.

So they have goody feelings and they violate the Golden Rule.

Nobody would want to be born in a brown-skinned country today. But everybody says that’s OK for future generations.

Once again, that’s as good a violation of the Golden Rule as any cruelty you can imagine, and it lasts MUCH longer.

What I have just said is the subtance of the teaching of every church on earth except Identity Christians. No one knows this better than Screwtape or a political pro:

You can walk straight into Hell through the church door.