Today idealism has triumphed among the clergy and the committed laity particularly. This is the literal opposite of the dynamic of Christian faith, which is a surrender to all that is real, to the force of attraction, discovered and acknowledged by the mind, of a present human reality. It might perhaps help the inward purity of an idealistically fabricated faith to find the bones of the allegedly Risen Christ. This is faith as something invented to fill a gap, an absence. Love saw to it that the cry was accepted with easy credence everywhere.
Oriental cities are silent after sunset.
And the silence was also deep in people's hearts. The slightest sounds accidentally heard were interpreted according to everyone's expectations. Usually expectation creates its object. In those decisive hours a draught, a window that creaked, a casual murmur, settled mankind's beliefs for centuries. And when a breath was heard in the air they believed they heard noises.