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We will soon have to choose between who we wish to be and who we must be to carry on. One way or another, there will be a cost.
“You were only doing what you thought was right.” “Which doesn’t mean much if I was wrong,”
This was the great shame of Bethel: complacency and complicity that were responsible for the deaths of generations of girls. It was the sickness that placed the pride of men before the innocents they were sworn to protect. It was a structure that exploited the weakest among them for the benefit of those born to power.
To be a woman is to be a sacrifice.
“Good people don’t bow their heads and bite their tongues while other good people suffer. Good people are not complicit.”
True evil, Immanuelle realized now, wore the skin of good men. It uttered prayers, not curses. It feigned mercy where there was only malice. It studied Scriptures only to spit out lies.
