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In chess it's called, taken "en passant," and it means that one pawn takes the other for refusing to fight- so in chess, you either fight, or, if the situation is right, you get taken; you lose. Now the interesting part of that rule is that circumstances have to be just so-so. What scares me about life, and especially about the Christian life, is that many of those who claim they love Jesus are being taken out, "en passant," for refusing to fight. Yet that's not the only comparable situation between life and chess and Christianity- "oh," you ask, "you mean there are more?" It might just be... When you reach a certain point in the game, it becomes impossible for either party to win, this is called, a draw. This is Satan's favorite ploy- C.S. Lewis, whom I did much of my background study for a Th.D. about; wrote an amazing book called "The Screwtape Letters" . In this work "Screwtape (along with his trusted scribe...