The lack of spirituality in high places, the blatant fiscalism, of which the unrestrained hawking of indulgences the actual trigger of the Reformation was a galling example, and the embroilment in political affairs all were symptoms of corruption long overdue for purgation.
"We now have a galling example of what happens when people fail this basic requirement".
Perhaps the most galling example is a long letter of evasion and self-justification that Khieu Samphan, Pol Pot's chief ideologue, wrote to Cambodian newspapers in 2001.
He cited what he said was the "galling example" of the "shabby treatment of the Little Sisters of the Poor"; nuns, he suggested, had been punished because they "dared to voice objections of conscience to Obamacare".
"The most galling example is the galling treatment of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Christian charity that dares to voice objections of conscience to Obamacare," he said to wild applause.
The popularity of "prosperity gospel" is perhaps the most galling example: where unctuous crooks like T.D. Jakes and Creflo Dollar persuade undereducated and underprivileged men and women to pray for wealth, while tithing what little wealth they have to their corrupt and swollen ministries.
