OK, I didn't write a poem yesterday, or the day before. I have been thinking about the space between these two quotes:
"St. Athanasius... claimed the supreme revelation and blessing... [of] Jesus was the appreciation of virginity and of chastity."
[can't find this in Athanasius yet, just some stuff about unconsecrated baptisms having the force of the sacrament -- which -- parody, humor and sacramental grace conflated?]
and
"...houses of debauch... are the worm-eaten centers of cities and towns. But these are necessary evils, and if forcibly abolished, men of unrighteous principles will become like raveled thread."
"St. Athanasius... claimed the supreme revelation and blessing... [of] Jesus was the appreciation of virginity and of chastity."
[can't find this in Athanasius yet, just some stuff about unconsecrated baptisms having the force of the sacrament -- which -- parody, humor and sacramental grace conflated?]
and
"...houses of debauch... are the worm-eaten centers of cities and towns. But these are necessary evils, and if forcibly abolished, men of unrighteous principles will become like raveled thread."
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