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“They were such warm, considerate, inclusive people rather than the overwhelmingly superficial, stuck-up, self-involved, cliquey people at St. Paul's”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“All women are born evil.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“She would be able to stay mediocre, something that I would never be able to go back to being.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“We were never carefree. Cares just change over the years.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“Men were perfect beings, created first by God, and to rule and women were imperfect and fallible, created as an afterthought to serve the man.”
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“They were not the rich, preened, middle-class hipsters of St. Paul's Church, but neither were they dull, mousy and grey as elsewhere.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“If you are not one with us you divide the church. If you ever choose to miss another meeting you needn't come again.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“I truly thought that it was a fact that every man was completely devoid of emotion, that sex was a tool of power for men.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“If you dispute something written in the bible you can’t plausibly claim to have ‘faith’ in that same God.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“How strange that in my thoughts I should accept of myself that as a woman, I was a charge, belonging to another, not permitted to come and go unaccounted for.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“The self is the enemy of Christ.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“Women were created for men, women were inferior to men, to disbelieve God now would render me even more worthless; but the realization of that broke me somewhere deep inside.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“I learnt about mastering my mind, bringing wayward thoughts into subjection to the word of God.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“It had shocked me how the people I loved and trusted most had spat out words like daggers.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“Sinful pride, arrogance and female assertion over male was all satanic…”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“Yes, it is my sole aim to brainwash you people. To make your minds, hearts and spirits pure and acceptable to Christ for Judgement Day.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“As my father always said, ‘sexism is a modern concept’.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“God is not only love as those spineless, insipid churches have told you. God can't be condensed to fit into your little world, running to apologise for your disappointments.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“I can't say that many of the youngsters at church aspired to be saints or lead particularly 'Godly' lives, they canoodled, smoked pot, drank excessively and were generally a whole lot more rebellious than most of the irreligious children from my school.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“There it was again, that word, obedient. Dredged up out of the dark ages by a man scarcely older than me”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“All the 'God is your father and he loves you' twaddle that they constantly taught at St. Paul's. It was so wet it made me squirm sometimes”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“It is a greater sin to speak against a man you are subject to in the name of God, you may as well be speaking against the Lord himself.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“As in every romance, the less admirable traits only became apparent later.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“All so religious that no one was cynical enough to think for a moment about how incredibly rich we were making him personally, while he languished indoors 'in prayer'.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“When I felt so enveloped in love, I was being conditioned into a particular way of thinking.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“As a diminutive woman I didn’t take any offense at all at sometimes being referred to as ‘the weaker vessel’, but Magali was almost comically enraged by it.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“I had to face a certain disappointment in God. This real God I had finally met was actually a man and favoured a man's world, discriminated against me.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“No matter how I humbled myself I couldn’t be satisfied and fulfilled as this insignificant and silent woman.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“They wanted clean-cut people to showcase their middle-class lives.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion
“They were not a bunch of freaks, neither were they bible bashers, they were people who cared about each other, their friends and their families.”
― The Ultimate Religion
― The Ultimate Religion