The Importance of Scaring Straight

I'm afraid some of the church fathers were guilty of it. It's okay to know that every girl will be saved but in order to spare these others the pains of purgation in the life to come We really have to scare them straight. So we just give them the unadorned unallegorized language of hell and just Know that in their childish way they'll believe it Take it literally and so they won't you know Beat their wives or children or or or steel or whatever right Now You understand the impulse. I mean it was a patrician culture. The sense of class was just was just absolutely saturated the culture. And so they had to be taught different things