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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Browne finds an interesting analogy to Christianity under the Roman Empire. "Like Communism in the twentieth century, the new religion was made the bugaboo and the scapegoat of the age. . . . There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size. (The analogy with Communism is disconcertingly close.)" When Christianity became legal, then official, it began what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author...
...Christianity in the beginning was like a warming glance that strove to light up the gray face of a spent civilization. . . . When the old Roman Empire passed away, the gleam remained, evoking a face of its own, the Roman Catholic Church. . . . For many years it shone like the morning sun struggling to break through a lowered sky. But then the face began to harden. . . . The features stood out in grotesque distortion, the mouth very wide from shrieking anathemas, the nose long and sharp to detect heresies; and the skin was covered with the scabs of corruption...
...Roman Catholic Father Malachy Mulligan was summoned from his monastery to an Edinburgh parish to teach a slipshod congregation how to chant plain song. Across the street from the church were two grievous eyesores: a Church of England edifice placarded with snappy ads for religion, and the Garden of Eden dance hall. Of the two, the Garden of Eden was slightly more offensive to the Catholic priest. Father Malachy, meeting the Anglican parson on the street and becoming involved in theological argument, became so annoyed that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden...
Unfortunately the result was not all that the good Father had hoped. Newspapers made a great but skeptical fuss. Protestants openly disbelieved; agnostics thought there was a trick in it; the Roman Catholic Church was more or less embarrassed. Finally Father Malachy, persuaded by an anxious colleague to clinch the matter by performing another miracle, prayed that the dance hall should be returned to its original location. It was done; and in 48 hours the public had forgotten it had ever moved...
...Author was crippled by the War; brims with Roman Catholic sweetness & light. He works at accounting, writes novels in his spare time, hopes soon to have more spare time. Other books: This Sorry Scheme, The Stooping Venus, The Little Friend...