Rev. (TV Series)

Episode #1.5 (2010)

Tom Hollander: Rev. Adam Smallbone

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• The Reverend Adam Smallbone : I take a literary and critical view of scripture as divinely inspired but not inerrant. I see the Bible as a metaphor. It's a brilliant record of human kind coming to understand itself. It's a really good attempt at some very big questions, but it wasn't divine dictation. It was written over many hundred of years by...

• The Reverend Adam Smallbone : It'd be great to be a Catholic priest, wouldn't it. Parading up and down like that?

  Nigel McCall : There is something sympathique about the idea.

  The Reverend Adam Smallbone : What would they call me, Nigel?

  Nigel McCall : Er, not Nigel. That's my name.

  The Reverend Adam Smallbone : Father. None of this overfamiliar Adam nonsense. They would hang on my every word. I'd only have to glance at them and they'd quake - certain in the knowledge that they were known. I would smite them. And at the last, as the worms devoured them and returned them to the dust from whence they came, they would thank me for the exquisite revelation of the divine.

  [pause - Nigel looks horrified] 

  The Reverend Adam Smallbone : Bit lonely in the evenings though.