> A German ambassador once told me he cdn't bear St Paul
> he was, he said, so hard on fornication.
> Canto LXXI
>
> Source: John Adams to F.A. Vanderkemp, March 3, 1804.
Against that, there's Adlai Stevenson's comment about a sermon by Norman Vincent Peale on the Epistle to the Romans: "I found Paul appealing and Peale appalling."