Do not be so quick to detest them! It is true they are corrupt, and they persecute as equally as they proselytize, but it was a priest who saved me more or less -- Dom Claude Frollo took me in at 16, taught me to read and to write, and educated me in the classics, in mathematics, and in sciences as well as the spiritual. He was not a kind master, but he was generous enough, and it is partly due to him that I have become the celebrated author I am today... or was then... or... This is very confusing.