G. K. Chesterton, originally Protestant, then a convert to
Catholicism, defends his church against Iconoclasts; his remarks do equally well in defense of Eastern Orthodoxy.
Though of course these shows and
pageants meant immeasurably much
to me, and profoundly affected my emotions, yet I do not base my belief on such emotions, still less on
such pageants or shows. I
was myself received into the Catholic Church in a small tin shed, painted brick-red, which stood among
the sculleries and outhouses of a Railway Hotel.
-- G.K. Chesterton, The Resurrection
of Rome (1930)
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