Echo Burning

It's rather like a camouflaged insect. It can get through the get through the barriers, because you can't see it. And whereas when it's translated into not just English but modern English, you can see it for what it is. [DD] But now, seriously then, do you, therefore delight in the fact that churches are modernising their texts and using the … [RD] No, no I don't. [DD] Or do you … [RD] It's an aesthetic point. No, I don't. [CH] That's the worst of both worlds. [DD] (inaudible) it seems to me … [RD] Yes. [CH] And we should be grateful for it. We didn't do this to them. [DD] Yeah, that's right, we didn't impose this on them … [CH] Any more than we … [SH] We weren't clever enough … [CH] We don't blow up Shi'a mosques either. We don't blow up the Birmingham Buddhas, we don't desecrate. For the reasons given, myself at least (inaudible), we would have a natural resistance to profanity and desecration. We'd leave it to the pious to destroy churches and burn synagogues or blow up each other's mosques, and I think that's a point that we might spend more time making because I do think it is feared of us, and this was my point to begin with, that we wish for a world that's somehow empty of this echo of music and poetry and the numinous and so forth ...»