“They’re filthy lice and we’re here in this stink hole as God’s punishment”
“That’s nonsense, Roper,” Spillbergen said. We’re here becau—”
“It’s God’s punishment! We should have burned all the churches in Santa Magdellana–not just two. We should have. Cesspits of Satan!”
Passage from James Clavell’s Shogun. Dutch Protestants that are being held prisoners are talking about what they should have done to the Catholic churches that they passed in travel. Whether Clavell meant for this passage to be funny or not I have no idea. It found it so with my morning coffee.
Windup Wire 