"a different 'Gentle Jesus' who was said to have 'walked among the poor', and 'blessed the meek' and 'the peacemakers'.
His 'Christianity' puts an entirely new slant on the phrase, 'suffer the children'"
,..,

The one who came to bring, not peace, but a sword, I daresay.

It is a piece of the grossest ignorance to imagine that "suffer the little children to come unto me" has anything to do with undergoing unpleasant experience: "suffer" in this sense and context just means "allow".

What was that most conservative & "reactionary" of playwrights John Osborne doing here, I wonder? Not the sort that Mr Carroll would usually appeal to for political or emotional support, I should have thought.

I suppose we'll get his usual plea that he got carried away emotionally by the force of his rhetoric, or whatever the usual formulation.

~M~