So, | urge you to speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority. You know, I've always believed that old Screwtape reserved his best efforts for those of you in the Church. So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, | urge you to beware the temptation of pride-the temptation of blithely..uh..declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. - Ronald Reagan speech to National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983. Retrieved from http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/reagan-evil-empire-textual- Note: ""Screwtape" was a fictional demon whose job was tempting people in order to place them into service of Satan. What is the point of the excerpted portion of the speech?

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