The Silas Code: How Pain Replaced Play as a Theological Value: In the recent book/movie,
The Da Vinci Code, an albino monk named Silas practices self-mortification — the denial of fleshly desires via physical pain as a way to draw closer to God. While I know few Christians who would agree with this practice, the opposite is also true — I know of few churches that consider "fun" a spiritual value.
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