Everyone knows about the foolishness of those kind of people – yelling, actually yelling at the priest. How do they get away with making that kind of scene? And to say that the old sacrifices were not working, why that was almost a sin in itself, wasn't it? Who is to say the old sacrifices aren't perfectly good? Certainly from ancient days our ancestors have managed our activities in these ways. The big ceremonies, did they not seem to connect to the needs and wants of the divine? In the past, they seemed to.

It is true that we live in unusual times, times in which the bloody Assyrians do tend to come over the hill to take people away to who knows where. But to say that God does not want sacrifice is just not warranted. What would God want if not what He has always wanted? What is all this about justice, anyway? The poor are always with us, and there's not much we can do about it, is there?