OMG, I had no idea people still did that:
On Sunday, after church, Julie and I had a Full And Frank Discussion with our boys over inattention at the liturgy. We tried to impress on them that there are places in this world where Christians are risking their lives simply to do what we can easily do on Sunday morning. I told them about Father George Calciu, and what he and the other Romanian Christians endured in Ceaucescu’s prisons — and how they celebrated that same liturgy inside prison walls.
In my childhood, the starving children of Africa were the preferred trick to try to make me eat. The result was, of course, a life-long eating disorder.
Do people still think that this heavy-handed and dumb manipulation provokes anything but eventual contempt for them?
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