“What business do the ones I love have figuring outhow to get off the hook? And right in the house of worship!Do you think making promises and devising pious programswill save you from doom?Do you think you can get out of thisby becoming more religious?A mighty oak tree, majestic and glorious—that’s how I once described you.But it will only take a clap of thunder and a bolt of lightningto leave you a shattered wreck.