He was fighting a losing battle. Try to frame your saying no as an offer, rather than a rejection, suggests Reicher. Theyre in the at-risk age bracket, and I dont know who my daughters are mixing with, especially because theyre both working. Tradition called for a girl carrying a baby to ride a donkey into a church while the congregation chorused hee-haw instead of Amen. Undeterred by the failure of his revolutionary forebears, Joseph Stalin tried a similar trick when he became leader of the (avowedly atheist) Soviet Union in 1928.
God protects the righteous from guns.
( z0 protect :ARG0 ( z1 person :name ( z2 name :op "God" ) ) :ARG1 ( z3 person :mod ( z4 self-righteous ) ) :ARG2 ( z5 gun ) )
(z0 / protect-01
    :ARG0 (z1 / person
              :name (z2 / name
                        :op1 "God"))
    :ARG1 (z3 / person
              :mod (z4 / self-righteous))
    :ARG2 (z5 / gun))
God protects the righteous from guns .
z1 :name z2
z2 :op1 0
z0 :ARG0 z1
z0 :ARG1 z3
z3 :mod z4
z0 :ARG2 z5