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Children: ‘What happens if we’re good?’

Parents: ‘Santa will bring you presents.’

Children: ‘What happens if we’re bad?’

Modern parents: ‘Santa will give you coal instead of presents.’

German parents:

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How many modern Christians could affirm these words without caveat?

“These [the Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer] are the most necessary parts of Christian teaching that one should first learn to repeat word for word. And our children should be used to reciting them daily when they rise in the morning, when they sit down to their meals, and when they go to bed at night. And until they repeat them, they should not be given food or drink. Likewise, every head of a household is bound to do the same with his household, manservants, and maidservants. He should not keep them in his house if they do not know these things or are unwilling to learn them. A person who is so rude and unruly as to be unwilling to learn these things is not to be tolerated.”