How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"There are Christians and then there are Christians." (3.8.80)
Here we go: this is probably the main point of The Poisonwood Bible when it comes to religion. There are wonderful people who adhere to the good tenets of Christianity: tolerance, patience, charity, world without end, amen. Then there are those that use religion as a means to power. (See: the Crusades, Nathan Price.)
Quote #11
In organic chemistry, invertebrate zoology, and the inspired symmetry of Mendelian genetics, I [Adah] have found a religion that serves. (6.3.12)
Adah falls out of Christianity—and stops believing in God—because her Sunday School teacher tells us that people born in the Congo do not go to heaven. Presto. As simple as that. Perhaps Adah considers science her religion because science is fair. It treats everyone and everything equally, from the smallest creature to the largest.