Then again he rebelled.
"It's not religious to be religious," he said.

"I reckon a crow is religious when it sails across the sky.

But it only does it because it feels itself carried to where it's going, not because it thinks it is being eternal." But Miriam knew that one should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
"I don't believe God knows such a lot about Himself," he cried.

"God doesn't KNOW things, He IS things.

And I'm sure He's not soulful." And then it seemed to her that Paul was arguing God on to his own side, because he wanted his own way and his own pleasure.