Do You Give More Than You Receive?

To be a martyr, you have to love the world and think your life is precious. Martyrdom indirectly celebrates or affirms the life that it's having to reject. It's not a virtue to give up drinking bleach for lent. To drink only one bottle a day rather than three? That's mortification. You shouldn't need that if you weren't in a corrupt and oppressive condition. I mean, martyrdom is tragic partly because it shouldn't be necessary. Nagle's wrong. The word martyr, literally, in greek, means bearing witness to that's testifyig a. And i learnt what it is for the first time, the difference between eternity and crucial yes,