I never met anyone who relinquished a newborn because she loved him or her so much. They did so out of shame, a lack of support from their families, or both. Their pain at having done so persisted, often for a lifetime.
“I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who’d just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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