Chuck Colson tells a story about twenty American soldiers held captive during World War II. During their captivity, they were forced to do hard labor, which usually involved digging with a shovel. One morning, the soldiers showed up for duty one shovel short. The prison guard counted twenty prisoners but only nineteen shovels, and he threatened to kill five prisoners if the one who forgot his shovel didn’t fess up. Seconds later, a prisoner stepped forward and admitted that he forgot his shovel. The guard quickly unbuckled his pistol, shoved the barrel into the temple of the shovel-less
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