Robyn

=The Dark Shadow of Religion=

About her painting, Black Cross, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keefe said, "I saw the crosses so often ... like a thin dark veil of the Catholic Church spread over the New Mexico landscape ... for me, painting the crosses was a way of painting the country."

"..as a nation assumes a democratic condition ... it becomes more and more dangerous to connect religion with political institutions..." (Alexis de Tocqueville, __Democracy in America__, p. 361)





"... a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical." (Nathaniel Hawthorne, __The Scarlet Letter__, p. 47)

"...the church did not exist in the world where people earn their living and have their being, but rather in the world where they fear death and Hell, which is not much of a world." (Wendell Berry, __Jayber Crow__, p. 160)







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