Listening to: the ubiquitous Mumford and Sons: Sigh no More
The fictional Reverend John Ames is reading an magazine article entitled 'God and the American People':
it says 95 percent of us say we believe in God. But our religion doesn't meet the writer's standards, not at all. To his mind, all those people in all those churches are the scribes and the Pharisees. He seems to me to be a bit of a scribe himself, scorning and rebuking the way he does. How do you tell a scribe from a prophet, which is what he clearly takes himself to be? The prophets love the people they chastise, a thing this writer does not appear to me to do.
(p.162, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead)
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