[jobim]

This is a snippet of a longer piece at:
http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.ca/

Screwtape summoned a Club servant to fill his glass. He shifted in his chair, animated
by the recollection of his own triumphs. "The master stroke was my brilliant idea for a
document which would be structured around ambiguity ... the beauty of this was that it
introduced into the teaching of the Church just that primacy of imprecision, of self-
contradiction, of deliberately cultivated vagueness, of programmed disintegration and
fissiparous confusion, which is the essence of our rules and traditions down here in the
Pandaemonium Club. It also has the strategic advantage of making the mortals unable
to pinpoint explicit error in a text which eschews the heresy of explicitness." He waited
as the glass was filled, and raised it to his nose. The dogmatisms, perhaps, of
Savonarola and of Bertrand Russell excitingly blended? With deeper hints of Martin Luther?

[ebb tide]

Thank you.

I consider Screwtape to be an excellent analogue to Pope Francis.

[Mrs. Don-o]

THis is excellent. I’m stealin’ it.