If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism. - Ronald Knox

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

All these riches, then, of her theology the Church has acquired, one might almost say, like the British Empire, in a fit of absence of mind. She was so busy scrapping with the heretics that she wasn't conscious of saying anything she hadn't always said; and yet, when she had time to sit down and look about her, she found it took ten minutes to sing the Credo instead of three.