We have to do this with secular conservatives fighting the improvements we want to make to the house, and at the same time we have to keep the radicals from burning it down. Whenever we have thwarted an arsonist, he will accuse us of being one of “those conservatives,” who do not want anything changed whatever, not even that appalling wallpaper in the foyer. And when we have successfully changed something, making a real improvement, the secular conservatives will accuse us of being radical revolutionaries, and they will go through our tool chest looking for the gas can.
