"To say to the priests, 'Your statues and scrolls are condemned by our common sense,' is sensible. To say, 'Your statues are condemned by your scrolls, and we are going to worship one part of your procession and wreck the rest,' is not sensible from any standpoint, least of all that of the man in the street." Very well done; Chesterton was very underrated in his time, and in this country, vastly underrepresented.
We understand very well the reasons behind these actions - they are all of men and their greed. Simon Magus was the prototype; his successors are still all getting theirs while the getting is good...
