Julian had somehow gotten into a particularly impassioned thread of his argument, concerning organized religion (especially state-sanctioned religion) being not an entity of holiness at all but merely a facade of playacting covering up purely imperialist motives—“We tithe to our church, because the church tells us that we must, but rather than using that money to build schools and libraries in the backcountry, or to otherwise fund learning for the masses, the great majority of it is used for the monks’ own benefit!
