It is said that the intelligent and cynical Talleyrand, a French diplomat and Catholic priest who was later secularised, said to Napoleon when he asked him to devise a political message: “Sire, give me the idea, I’ll find the arguments myself…” If such an intellectual attitude is cynical and unscrupulous in politics, let’s imagine the consequences in the religious sphere.
From martyr to student, or how to be a superficial viewer
