This story shows how contradictory religion can often be, when people pick and choose the rules that apply to them. One of the major focuses the Dean’s sect promotes was the denial of the many “pleasures of this world, for the earth and all that it held to them was but a kind of illusion, and the true reality was the New Jerusalem toward which they were longing.” (pg 1) Though the Dean was the leader of his sect, he was a walking, talking contradiction. He claimed to believe in selflessness and non materialistic goals, but he held onto the most material things in his life, his daughters with an iron fist. “As young girls, Martine and Philippa had been extraordinarily pretty, with almost supernatural fairness… [however] They were never to be
