Monday, May 20, 2019
The Holy Land
A.N. Wilson, The Victorians (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003), p. 172:
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Ever since the 'Holy Land' was invented as a pilgrimage-centre by the Empress Helena in the fourth century, it had been the scene of acrimony and violence among the rival religious groups. Indeed a visitor from another culture, or planet, who did not know what the function of the 'Holy Land' was, could be forgiven for supposing that it had been devised specifically as a battleground, where worshippers of supposedly the same all-loving deity came to denounce, abuse and murder one another.
