Sticks and stones aren’t the only weapons in Satan’s arsenal. He often resorts to something much more dangerous, something I call panem et circenses. Wikipedia that if you want, but I’ll save you the time—it’s Latin for “bread and circuses,” and it’s part of a quote from a Roman writer named Juvenal from around 100 AD: “For the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions—everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”1
