At one of these services I heard my roommate tearfully confess a series of wild escapades that I knew he was embellishing. Like prisoners bragging about their crimes, young sinners gained inverted prestige through dramatic public repentance.
“after I got married, I was cheating all the time and having sex with porn stars,” said the young fool bragging about his surely exaggerated escapades… compounding lies upon adultery, sin upon sin, while God’s more witless children sat in rapt attention
