The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158223   Message #3752688
Posted By: Steve Shaw
22-Nov-15 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
But Raggytash, the picture is so warm, so cosy, the little children so beautiful and so neat and scrubbed, so obedient, so serene. The fact that they are far too young to have a clue about what they're chanting is beside the point! But the prayer they're chanting is so full of certainty! It doesn't matter that what they're chanting is completely untrue. The power and the glory have eased them ever so gently into line. Things will get a little sterner when they grow up a bit more. They should thank God they're not Catholics, as that's sterner still, or Muslims, the sternest bunch of the lot. All the same God, though, all the same truth deficit, just a matter of degree.