13th September
Very often... the harshest version of a religion seems the purest, the most serious and authentic. Those inclined to defer to 'Christianity,' however defined, can be persuaded by an apparent consensus that it is essentially a system of prohibitions meant to fortify believers' consciences against any doubt they might otherwise feel about behaviour the Bible forbids--vilifying and condemning, for example, or about depriving and excluding. This might be what moral rigor looks like, after all.
Marilynne Robinson, 'Memory', in The Givenness of Things: essays (2015)
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