20210316 Tuesday
She was the evangelical matriarch; his father’s faith in the church lapsed before he was born.
Matriarch 女族長
Some afternoons, he was rocked to sleep by the pastor in his office.
Rock to sleep 揺すって寝かしつける
His was a “rapture-oriented” church, meaning the distance between believer and apostate was a matter of eternal certainty—to believe was to punch your ticket into the millennial kingdom of heaven, and to stray was to be dashed into pieces like pottery on earth (if biblical prophecy is taken at its word.)
Apostate 離脱者 背徳
The right side of the stage was red and relied on cheap pyrotechnics to simulate the lake of fire in hell.
