It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else . . . The child’s preference for sweets over spinach, mankind’s universal love of the toothsome rather than the nutritious is the mark of our greatness . . . The world is no disposable ladder to heaven. Earth is not convenient, it is good; it is, by God’s design, our lawful love.

Robert Capon, The Supper of the Lamb