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On Palm Sunday the members of an adult class were asked to think silently on some time in life when they had trusted in a false god. Their reflections, they were told, would be completely private. They would not have to share what the god was, nor would they have to say what they had done during the time of their trusting. They should simply recall a period in life when they had given themselves to one of the many of lesser gods which have dominated the latter decades of the Twentieth Century.