Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
I think there's a difference between God and religion.
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.