I started going to church with them. Twice on Sunday and once on Wednesday night, the preacher of that church taught me things about darkness that I had never known. Without a single grinding of gears, he shifted the subject from physical darkness to spiritual darkness, using my history of the one to fuel my fear of the other. He taught me it was no mistake that “devil” and “darkness” began with the same letter, since they came from and were headed to the same place, along with Satan and all his minions. He read scripture to support his points, picking out so many verses about outer darkness,
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