"My personal feeling is that if you get into the habit of looking for hatred and negativity in the works of your fellow man, you run the risk of developing a talent for abuse that you will find hard to control." Weelittledrummer, I find this very rich, coming from the one who began an earlier post with "How to put this without sounding as though I am condescending to an idiot:-" By the way, you may be amused to know that a fanny is not necessarily a fanny - in American usage, fanny means backside, but in Australian usage, it refers to a woman's genitals, and is considered a rather vulgar term.

So let me propose an experiment. Write out the stanza from LotD on a piece of paper, show it to a friend who is not familiar with the song, and when the friend has read it, ask whether your friend thinks that the "they" in the second half was meant by the author to refer to the holy people of the first half.