the priest's predelictions?
the final scene of the movie where the priest's vision of heaven as happy kids dressed in while recalls John's apocalipse where those who have been 'washed in the blood of the lamb' are clad in white.
Now given that even in the 1970's this text was considerd heavly homo-erotic is the director sugesting that the Priest's desire for 'inocence' from the children is as much a 'sexual' (I have to refer to Peodaphilia in these terms but it is convienent short hand) as anything else?
'i regard it [religion] as a disease born of fear'
bertrand russell.