“The madman is not the man who lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”
G.K. Chesterton
In Wake Up Dead Man, the current installment of an ongoing murder mystery series called Knives Out, starring Daniel Craig as the cynical Inspector Benoit Blanc, the body of a murdered monsignor turns up in a parish church in upstate New York. Suspicion soon falls upon the young curate, Fr. Jud, who, it turns out, is entirely innocent and, in fact, later asked to assist in the investigation.
I have not seen the episode, nor either of the two previous installments, but I did catch an exchange early on in a preview of the movie between the priest and the detective that leaves me less than eager to find out what happens next. Asked whether he’s Catholic or not, the detective replies, “No, very much not, no. Proud heretic. I kneel at the altar of the rational.”
Having thus established his bona fide as the only honest skeptic in the room, which happens to be the sacristy of the church where the body of the murdered monsignor lies, he feels it necessary to embroider at length upon the matter, explaining
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