Consider those in a church who look around and assess the character of those in proximity and take comfort. Pity those who find strength and feel “fellowship” or succor there. For consider that working with such poor material that they will weave. They will accept and extrapolate these “facts” and “observations” before them and surmise things and fear things and “know” things of the moral and spiritual deficiencies and depravities of the world outside. (Including, of course, practitioners who believe differently elsewhere).

For, verily I tell thee, any with any degree of integrity in the interface of the spiritual and the physical will not be found near an organized established religion; they will avoid it and go quietly and humbly but not willingly when obligated. Pity those who see “integrity” and “spirituality” and “goodness” and even “reality” confined among the ranks where it patently is not.

Beware those who act to order the world around them to embrace and assimilate to this “standard” and, ultimately, to enforce and mandate upon the world around them their “superior” “values”. Keep a healthy and wary fear of those who strive to conserve this dichotomy. Have utmost compassion for women who fall prey to the delusion and acqueise and are willing welcoming party to the conservation of an altogether other dichotomy of misogyny which lives and breathes life in such environment, bindings bolstered by some ersatz ‘word’.