Caroline's+Thoughts+About+Religion

Caroline's Thoughts About Race Religion Reflection

Why Can’t We… Christianity

“The hell with it! There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain’t nice, but that’s as far as any man got a right to say.” Jim Casy in //The Grapes of Wrath//

“She remembered-betwixt a smile and a shudder-the talk of the neighboring townspeople; who, seeking vainly elsewhere for the child’s paternity, and observing some of her odd attributes, had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring; such as, ever since old Catholic times, had occasionally been seen on earth, through the agency of their mothers’ sin, and to promote some foul and wicked purpose.” – //The Scarlet Letter//

“An’ I got to thinkin’, on’y it wasn’t thinkin’, it was deeper down than thinkin’. I got thinkin’ how we was holy when we was one thing, an’ mankin’ was holy when it was one thing. An’ it on’y got unholy when one mis’able little fella got the bit in his teeth an’ run off his own way, kickin’ an’ draggin’ an’ fightin’. Fella like that bust the holiness. But when they’re all workin’ together, not one fella for another fella, but one fella kind of harnessed to the who shebang-that’s right, that’s holy. An’ then I got thinkin’ I don’t even know what I mean by holy.” – Jim Casy in //The Grapes of Wrath//



Religion vs. Politics A never ending feud.