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“Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.”{{sfn|Hemingway|1940|p=41}} </blockquote>{{pg|338|339}} | “Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.”{{sfn|Hemingway|1940|p=41}} </blockquote>{{pg|338|339}} | ||
After making love with Maria, Jordan criticizes his political ''clichés.''{{efn|“Hard-shell Baptist”was applied to the Primitive Baptists, a group dating from early nineteenth century splits.}} “He had gotten to be as bigoted and hide-bound about his politics as a hardshelled Baptist. . . . Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence.”{{sfn|Hemingway|1940|p=164}} Finally, in the novel’s last few pages, Jordan reflects on facing death “with religion” and “taking it straight.”{{sfn|Hemingway|1940|p=468}} Here Jordan’s perspective, echoing Feuerbach and Freud, is typical of the rhetoric of modernism. “Who do you suppose has it easier? Ones with religion or just taking it straight? It comforts them very much but we know there is no thing to fear.”{{sfn|Hemingway|1940|p=468}} | |||
=== Notes === | === Notes === | ||