McGrath of Harlow wrote, "I can't put my hand on a quote that brings it out, but Sydney Carter often enough indicated that "the holy people" meant the kind of people who think they own God, in any religion."

If you do find a quote that brings it out, I'd like to see it. Meanwhile, I have found that I'm not the only person ever to be upset by the song. Here are a couple of places where the topic comes up.

www.neym.org/PrejudiceAndPoverty/Issue3.summer99.pdf

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/articles/london21.htm