Brethren, greetings again in Jesus Christ, in whose heart we take constant refuge.
Anna Williams wrote over at First Things a piece titled The Holy Innocents in Enemy-Occupied Territory that you all ought to read. However, what caught my eye was this quote from C.S. Lewis that I now reproduce for you:
Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers. It thinks it is a civil war, a rebellion, and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel.
Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
As a military person, I understand fully what the phrase “enemy-occupied territory” means. I am sure that many others around the world, victims mainly, understand also the meaning of the phrase.
The facts are as Jack Lewis stated them: we’re at war, we live in enemy-occupied territory, and it shouldn’t surprise us to see so many enemy collaborators, all of them pushing us to accept the pax diabolica as “the new normal.”
We must say “no” and engage in the spiritual warfare the good of the world expects from us.