Light in August Religion Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #10

It seems to him that he has seen it all the while: that that which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from the steeples. He seems to see them, endless, without order, empty, symbolical, bleak, skypointed not with ecstasy or passion but in adjuration, threat, and doom. (20.20)

Hightower suggests that it is not religion that's the problem – it's the gatekeepers of religion.