Chapter 45: Angels

[Terrance]

Otto wrote:
> 
> Young Nathe McClean, who has fallen in love for a milkmaid and seems to
> think 'God must have sent me an Angel', a very popular phrase in popular
> music by the way, asks RC at the end of the chapter:
> 
> "tho' we know the Duck has been transform'd by Love, what of the Angels,--
> that is, may they...um..."
> "Aye, they do that, Lad, and they drink and smoke, and dance and gamble
> withal. That ev'ryone knew that." (451.5-8)
> 
> No, this was new to me and I dare to question if it's official Christian
> doctrine, or:

What is **official** Christian doctrine? 

Anyway, there is sin in heaven, angels can have sex, eat, drink, sin.
Don't trust that movie DOGMA, it's only hollywood, like the Ten
Commandments. And of course, being Angels, when they fart they can blow
entire cities off the map, their shields are as large a the moon and
their arrows longer than the red trees of California, their machines
make A-bombs look like toys. 

Good place to find all this is in the bible. 

As below and above and all around with guardian love, moma said there
would be angels. 

The RC read lots of books across the comparative religion spectrum. 

Here is one he read: 

The Wandering Scholars
By Helen Waddell