15-Appendix 3: Crawford Gribben

I have lightly accommodated the words of Crawford Gribben
who was writing about Ireland, since what he said applies far
wider than that. He wrote:
Failure... has marked the entire history of the Christendomchurch.
1 By definition, it could not be otherwise. „Christian
Ireland‟ was never all that it should have been... [the truth is, it
never existed – DG]. Failure... has marked the entire history of
the church in Christendom.2 By definition, it could not be
otherwise.