A video interview on french television of a father attempting to console and comfort his young son at a memorial to the victims of the attacks in Paris has gone viral.  At one point, in response to the boy fearfully telling the reporter conducting the interview that bad guys with guns could shoot us, the father exclaims, “Yes, but we have flowers. Look, everyone is laying flowers. That’s the way to fight guns.”  The young boy, not convinced initially in the slightest, replies, “But flowers don’t do anything.” The father however insists that the flowers and the candles used at the memorial are needed … Continue reading “No evil to resist, and no holiness to attain”