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.

Si diceva che là dentro [nello studio] il Comandante facesse cose molto importanti - le cose importanti riservate agli uomini, troppo importanti perché s’immischiassero le donne, che avevano cervelli più piccoli ed erano incapaci di grandi ragionamenti. Così ci spiegava Zia Vidala nelle ore di Religione.

Klan. White supremacists were very active then. “Liberation theology, why is the Vatican so worried?” Death row. The battle of the Bible Belt. In 1985, racists in the U.S. were preaching revolution: “U.S. conservatives push new order—the push to the right.” And religion was a significant part of that whole movement: “Racism and religion a potent brew,” “Evangelist moles running for U.S. president,” “The power and influence behind America’s right”—meaning the rise of the Religious Right.