A War of Flowers (2014)
“Every Sunday householders could expect callers asking for a ‘voluntary’ contribution to Party funds. They would have the names of every occupant of an apartment block, and beside each name, the sums that they had given on previous occasions.
Often the sheet of paper would be proffered so that you could compare how much you gave in comparison with your neighbours. The youth leaders chose Sunday for these collections because it meant the children would be too busy to attend church. Christiani...ty was not approved of – Erich had earnestly advised Clara in the past that Christ was a Jew – and now only a trickle of elderly people attended services while children were sent on marches, or collecting missions. Yet the strange thing was, Clara thought, that their earnest, shining-eyed insistence on the HJ gospel, and their unrelenting commitment to proselytizing it, was exactly the same as those missionaries who once used to knock on apartment doors, Bible in hand, in an effort to save your eternal soul.MoreLess
Often the sheet of paper would be proffered so that you could compare how much you gave in comparison with your neighbours. The youth leaders chose Sunday for these collections because it meant the children would be too busy to attend church. Christiani...ty was not approved of – Erich had earnestly advised Clara in the past that Christ was a Jew – and now only a trickle of elderly people attended services while children were sent on marches, or collecting missions. Yet the strange thing was, Clara thought, that their earnest, shining-eyed insistence on the HJ gospel, and their unrelenting commitment to proselytizing it, was exactly the same as those missionaries who once used to knock on apartment doors, Bible in hand, in an effort to save your eternal soul.MoreLess
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