Food for Thought

     “Why does faith bring out the worst in so many, brother Guy, I blurted out.  How is it that it can turn men, papist and reformer both, into brutes?"
     "Man is an angry, savage being.  Sometimes faith becomes an excuse for battle.  It is no real faith then.  In justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God."
     “But they have the comfortable belief that, having read the Bible, and prayed, they cannot be wrong, I replied.”.
    "I fear so, he responded."

From “Dark Fire” by C. J. Sansom, a historical novel on Tudor England