My Dear Bunglehorn,

I am glad to hear your patient is browsing some of the agnostic websites I suggested. You should find these tools to be most affective, especially in the contemporary era where psuedo-intellectuals (they fancy themselves “freethinkers”) question everything for the sake of asking. Don’t you find it ironic that the very tenets of Western democracy – freedom and choice – are what popularized the notion that all ideas deserve merit?

Of course a few astute men fathom the paradox of choice, wherein too many options yield confusion, pain and eventually apathy. Bunglehorn, that is precisely the objective: a confused mind takes no action!

Consider this: the Enemy loves man and He wants man to love Him. However, since genuine love cannot be forced, He gave every men free will so that they may choose to love Him in return. Every man, then, has three options: 1) he can choose to love Him, 2) he can choose to reject Him or 3) he can choose later. Option 3 is the easiest choice, and therefore quite popular. The problem for men is eventually they die, at which point Options 2 & 3 converge into one. For by not choosing to love Him, they reject Him.

Therefore, a wonderful method of winning your patient’s soul is to keep his mind fuzzy on matters of faith. He might be intellectually lazy or he might constantly require more and more and MORE proof. His desire for evidence is insatiable! Now, you and I don’t care what his inclination is, either state is sufficient. Of course, the Enemy has revealed all that is necessary, your patient merely needs to open his heart and truly open his mind. It is your job to intervene with an overdose of self confidence. Put his mind at ease so that he might procastinate.

Dostoyevsky got it right:

“Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.”The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

I once had an atheist patient. Not the kind that is always debating with Christians despite his own misunderstandings of their faith, but one that was cynical, full of pride and ambivalent. One day, he was reading at a bookstore coffee bar when something tweaked his worldview ever so gently. For a moment, I saw years of my hard work in jeapordy because the Enemy was beside him in an instant. Fortunately, I’m no fool, I suggested that these matters were too important to consider on an empty stomach. Perhaps he would gain more clarity after taking in a muffin and another espresso? Eventually the moment passed and he chalked it up to mindless drivel. Now his soul is resting with Our Father below.

Stay alert. The Enemy is always near!

Warmest Regards,
Wigglebrick

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