Let me share another “stupid little boy” story with you @Armour of God.
“A pastor by the name of Florescu was tortured with red-hot iron pokers and with knives. He was beaten very badly. Then starving rats were driven into his cell through a large pipe. He could not sleep because he had to defend himself all the time. If he rested a moment, the rats would attack him.
He was forced to stand for two weeks, day and night. The Communists wished to compel him to betray his brethren, but he resisted steadfastly. Eventually, they brought his fourteen-year-old son to the prison and began to whip the boy in front of his father, saying that they would continue to beat him until the pastor said what they wished to know. The poor man was half mad. He bore it as long as he could, then he cried to his son, ‘Alexander, I must say what they want! I can’t bear your beating anymore!’ The son answered, ‘Father, don’t do me the injustice of having a traitor as a parent. Withstand! If they kill me, I will die with the words, ‘Jesus and my fatherland.’ The Communists, enraged, fell upon the child and beat him to death, with blood splattered over the walls of the cell. He died praising God. Our dear brother Florescu was never the same after seeing this.”
(Richard Wurmbrand, Tortured for Christ, pp. 34-35)
This has nothing directly to do with Vlad the Impaler and Muslims, but Vlad would have loved what the Communists did. The Muslims may have too. @Wrangler? Well, Vlad is his hero, and torturing / killing Christians wasn’t a problem for Vlad, nor is it for Wrangler. What about you?
This has everything to do with faithfulness. The “stupid little boy” refused to compromise, when compromising was held out as a way to save himself and his father. He fought back, unarmed, against armed men intent on obtaining what they wanted by violence.
Who won in this story?
The “stupid little boy” and his father. The torturers did all they could do, and in the end they didn’t obtain what they were after.
“A pastor by the name of Florescu was tortured with red-hot iron pokers and with knives. He was beaten very badly. Then starving rats were driven into his cell through a large pipe. He could not sleep because he had to defend himself all the time. If he rested a moment, the rats would attack him.
He was forced to stand for two weeks, day and night. The Communists wished to compel him to betray his brethren, but he resisted steadfastly. Eventually, they brought his fourteen-year-old son to the prison and began to whip the boy in front of his father, saying that they would continue to beat him until the pastor said what they wished to know. The poor man was half mad. He bore it as long as he could, then he cried to his son, ‘Alexander, I must say what they want! I can’t bear your beating anymore!’ The son answered, ‘Father, don’t do me the injustice of having a traitor as a parent. Withstand! If they kill me, I will die with the words, ‘Jesus and my fatherland.’ The Communists, enraged, fell upon the child and beat him to death, with blood splattered over the walls of the cell. He died praising God. Our dear brother Florescu was never the same after seeing this.”
(Richard Wurmbrand, Tortured for Christ, pp. 34-35)
This has nothing directly to do with Vlad the Impaler and Muslims, but Vlad would have loved what the Communists did. The Muslims may have too. @Wrangler? Well, Vlad is his hero, and torturing / killing Christians wasn’t a problem for Vlad, nor is it for Wrangler. What about you?
This has everything to do with faithfulness. The “stupid little boy” refused to compromise, when compromising was held out as a way to save himself and his father. He fought back, unarmed, against armed men intent on obtaining what they wanted by violence.
Who won in this story?
The “stupid little boy” and his father. The torturers did all they could do, and in the end they didn’t obtain what they were after.
