—"So, the Mother Goddess is a passionate deity, yet also a jealous one. Due to the Savior's birth and death, the Mother Goddess transformed into a loving deity."
Through the stained glass, sunlight not only reduced the heat but also added a layer of holiness; in the cool air, the middle-aged cleric was serious and devout.
Too devout, in Roland's view—his zealotry was so extreme that he seemed blind and deaf to anything other than his own beliefs.
What made him feel even more uncomfortable was the content and viewpoints of the Holy Scriptures and theological instruction.
(To demand a father sacrifice his son, encourage siblings to conflict, and create massive slaughter—to change so fundamentally just because a prophet died? Even when that Savior was nailed to the cross, didn't he cry out, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" (Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani—Matthew 27:46)?)
Bowing his head in a facade of devout prayer, Roland secretly criticized in his heart.
