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didst thou not find that those who thought thus did also
    cling to the Faith?"
    "Which faith? There were so many where I grew up, and some of them were very definitely not religious. Page 25
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    no, I never did do a statistical analysis on any of them. Religion isn't the kind of thing you discuss in polite society, back home. In fact, I even knew a few people who lived very Christian lives but never went to Church.
    People can read the Bible without a priest's help, dear. "
    "Aye, yet how many of them do? Yet also, my lord, thou
    dost forget that the greater number of our folk cannot read. "
    "Yeah, so they have to take the priest's word that what he
    reads is what the Book really says. That's why I'm so big on
    education, sweetheart. "
    "As am I, my lord, for I'm aware that what our children do learn outside our home hath great influence indeed on
    them. And what would that learning be, were there no Church for them to learn in?"
    "They'll learn more from their playmates than from the priest, dear. You know that. "
    "Aye, and that is why I am so concerned that their playmates also learn what we wish them to. How could we
    assure that, if there were no Church?" •;
    "I see, " Rod said slowly. "If the Church becomes the Church of Gramarye, who knows what else they'll change?
    Maybe letting the priests marry. " He nodded. "And if the priests start marrying, how long will it be before they
    find a good reason for condoning divorce?"

    "My lord! I scarcely—"
    "Oh, no, sweetheart, I didn't mean it that way! But you've got to admit—if a priest is going to be unprincipled
    enough to forget his vow of celibacy, isn't he apt to start condoning divorce, too?"
    "Aye... thou hast summat of truth there. Yet not all priests do think of expedience. "
    "No, " Rod said slowly, "most of them are just ordinary men, like the rest of us, trying to be good but still Page 26
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    men— hopefully with a little greater success. But there are the ones who go too far that way, too. " Gwen was puzzled. "How can a priest go too far toward being good?"
    "By working too hard at it. It doesn't come naturally to any of us, you know. There are the priests who go to
    extremes and become fanatics. They're bound and determined that they're going to come near anything that might
    be even remotely sinful—and they're bound and determined that the rest of us won't, either, so we can't contaminate them. So they decide anything pleasant is sinful—songs, dancing, theater, sex—"
    "And love, " Gwen murmured.
    "They don't go quite that far, or at least, they don't dare say it aloud. But they can sure as hell make a child feel
    guilty about loving anybody but God, and make him feel like a total sinner if he has the least lascivious thought.
    Not to mention making think that he should spend every spare minute in prayer— don't laugh, dear, I've met 'em.
    'My lord, ' they say, 'have you read The Lives of the Saints? "
    "Aye, my lord. They were good and Godly people. "
    "They were a bunch of psychotics! Do you want your son to pull off every thread he's wearing and shove 'em at
    you so he can tell you that now he has nothing to bind him to you anymore? Or to have your daughter have sores
    on her knees 'cause she spends too much time kneeling on hard granite floors, praying?" Gwen shuddered. "My lord! These are sacrilegious words!" "Sacrilegious, my donkey! They're darn near direct
    quotes from the saints' lives! And have you noticed how few of them were parents?" Gwen winced, but she said doggedly, "I mark how few of (them hearkened to the blandishments of the worldly,
    my lord, or let themselves be led into sin so that evil folk might use and abuse them. "

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    "There is that, " Rod admitted. "There were only a few of them