The Counterattack

Though the Church was guarded by The Enemy from the perversions and heterodoxies that we successfully introduced into other doctrines of men by exploiting their pride and ego (a protection we have since chipped away at!) turning them rapidly back into the paganism through which they have been induced to worship us, the Enemy’s Church, built upon its so-called Rock, suffered an enormous weakness: it could be corrupted by those who led it. Choked by its own success. The more it grew in power and authority, the stronger the temptation to use that power and authority for other ends than the Enemy’s grew.

A two-part strategy was evolved by the Low Command and endorsed by Our Father Below. In the first phase, a counter-Messiah was developed and released in close proximity to that of the Incarnation. While this was successful in drawing many of the cattle away from the Incarnation, the threat posed by it had the same effect as the early Roman persecutions: it strengthened the unity of the Church. Therefore, that pressure needed to be locally relieved. While the widespread loss of the Northmen to Christianity was viewed by the short-sighted as a major defeat for us, it became the key to one of our greatest victories.

Relieved from the outer pressure from the North and (for the moment) the East, the human leaders of the Church immediately and predictably focused on what always matters most to them: their own social power. Encouraging the rivalry between the Popes and the Eastern Emperors, we were able (as we had with the Hebrews centuries before) to make the leaders of each faction replace the actual, spiritual law the Enemy taught with their own imagined ego-pictures. These, and the power attached to them, became successful enough to make the humans break the Church over a single word, as if they understood by what methods the Enemy accomplished the most complex and enigmatic relationship in the cosmos!

Once this initial Schism was achieved, our grand strategy practically evolved itself: from then on we could count on every part of the Church being at war, either with the other parts of the Church, or with the factions within its own part that could be painted as “too conciliatory,” or “too extreme.” Instead of law, they had war, a state of affairs we are much more at home with.

By the time they awoke to the danger, we’d got the fun of the Anglican, Protestant, AND Catholic Reformations, to say nothing of the Inquisitions. As the final bonus, we got to watch all Christendom slaughter each other for Thirty Years, which would finally leave us free to expose the Enemy’s hypocrisy and eradicate His teachings once and for all. However, the Enemy prolonged matters by predictably cruel and banal means.