Hammering the Bronze

Abstract

Piety is possible about anything that is unquestioned. Something assumed to be good or true, without thought or doubt. One can be pious about anything at all where these conditions apply. It doesn't necessarily have any connection with religion or for that matter even with humility. Quite the contrary. There are many prescriptive sentimentalists about, who probably think of themselves as moralists, and who have just this quality of unexamined sanctity in their judgements, only it's an aggressive kind of thing.