Religion In The Handmaid's Tale Quotes

So, the book is not 'anti-religion.' It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different thing altogether.

Many [totalitarians] have ruled behind a religious front. It makes the creation of heretics that much easier.

The global attack on women, and the connected attempt by right-wing populism to reshape them into characters from The Handmaid’s Tale, excludes no nationality, no social class, no religion and no privilege.

... I feared I might lose my faith. If you've never had a faith, you will not understand what that means. You feel as if your best friend is dying, that everything that defined you is being burned away; that you'll be left all alone. You feel exiled, as if you are lost in a dark wood. It was like the feeling I had when Tabitha died: the world was emptying itself of meaning. Everything was hollow. Everything was withering.