Austrian religion had a very considerable effect on me, as must be fairly obvious from previous postings. But after thinking long and hard about it, I can't help wondering if it was all to the good. The problem is that everything I experienced seemed so successful. Much of it seemed like a Christian version of This is your Day with Benny Hinn. Or at least it did to me. I'm not used to such successful piety. Nor, for that matter, to such beautiful, elegant, and prosperous piety. No doubt my responses are due, at least in part, to an upbringing in a very distant and different society from that of the heirs to the Holy Roman Empire. But it still gives me pause. In this case, was the good the enemy of the best?
