Monday, 15 October 2012

Protestantism is a disreputable young brother

My reactions are most unorthodox. I feel less hurt about your entering Islam than I would if you were to become a Protestant. That is wrong, for Protestantism is a disreputable young brother but still of the family. Whereas Islam is the old enemy.

A. Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958), Malayan trilogy edition: 244

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