Commentary
“I hope he rots in hell!” shouted the voice on the phone.
He was furious with me for my defence of Cardinal George Pell, who at that time (this was a couple of years ago), faced the worst imaginable legal and personal persecution.
My caller made it clear that he loathed Christianity equally. I kept quiet, though tempted to congratulate him for hanging on to at least one element of the faith: his apparent belief in the possibility of eternal punishment.
I could have added that if he ended up there himself, he might be surprised to find that the cardinal was somewhere else. But I let it go….