Re: this David French column on why what Christians do matters more they what they (claim to) believe, I think of this sentence from George Eliot’s story “Janet’s Repentance”: “Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.”