Religion is what you sing on Sunday, Miss Stovall. Your true faith is what you want all week. - Parke Godwin

Infantile, needing to be the center and reason for creation, the less educated or advantaged subject needs a distorted miraculous theology to support a perilous existence, externally and constantly threatened as it is by “them.”

Hell, there’s no mystery between men and women, except why some poor damn fool like me ain’t figured that out yet.

Was that what all my praying was about? “Lord Amighty, no wonder I am damned.”
“No, Miss Stovall. Love and hell are alike in that respect; they are what you bring to them. The script is yours; only the props are furnished.”