Perhaps—just perhaps—if we emphasized worship as sacrifice and as remedy for sin, if we emphasized spiritual struggle and combat as essential preparations for eternity, if we taught people to pray so that they and their loved ones would not become food for the devil—that just might work. I have it on good authority that it worked in the past. But that was a long time ago, wasn’t it?
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