Reflections of a stormy petrel

As for Brown's Presbyterian roots, you cannot first underline the places that an atheist might be coming from, and then deny that it is relevant in a person who has always made a great song and dance of being a son of the manse, even as he pushed policies that would have made his Protestant ancestors retch. Hatred of the Catholic Church is one thing that survives nearly any collapse of faith; that was, if you remember, the beginning of this whole discussion - my contention that, because of their backgrounds, it was impossible for two people like Benito Mussolini and Jack Lewis to convert to Catholicism. Bear in mind that they had nothing else in common, and that while Mussolini probably never heard of Lewis, Lewis had a wholesome contempt for Mussolini from very early on.