Rude religion
Lines from David Copperfield came to me forty years after I might have used them
Growing up accustomed to the gentle tolerance implicit in the beliefs of people in rural Somerset, moving to Northern Ireland in 1983 came as a severe shock. Of course, we had all heard of the Reverend Ian Paisley and his ilk, but there was a tendency to imagine that the views he expressed were the rants of an extreme minority and that the majority of ordinary people were reasonable, attached to a rational view of …