'But you and all the kind of Christ
Are ignorant and brave,
And you have wars you hardly win
And souls you hardly save.'
The ballad of the white horse

Saturday, September 10, 2011

'Rubbish'

In 'The flying inn', we read some interesting fiction Chesterton made up about (middle) eastern religions and philosophies influencing British politicians:
'I call it rubbish,' cried Patrick Dalroy, 'when ye put the Koran into the Bible and not the Apocrypha; and I carl it rubbish when a mad person's allowed to put a crescent on St. Paul's Cathedral. I know the Turks are our allies now; but they often were before, and I never heard that Palmerston or Colin Campbell had any truck with such trash.'
'Lord Ivywood is very enthusiastic, I know,' said Pump, with a restrained amusement 'He was saying only the other day at the Flower Show here that the time had come for a full unity between Christianity and Islam.'
'Something called Chrislam perhaps,' said the Irishman. 
 

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