In Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Matthew Harrison Brady is portrayed to be the most religious character in the play. Being religious means to believe in your religion’s god and it’s abilities, and to know aswell as accepting what the religion’s holy scriptures says. By far, Brady demonstrates all of that better than anyone else in the play. When Brady and Drummond are in an altercation during the monkey trial, Brady says “Natural law was born in the mind of the Heavenly father”(2.2.80). In this statement, Brady tells the courthouse that he believes that natural law was born in God's view therefore he can manipulate it to his liking thus invalidating Drummond’s argument of scientific development being relevant according
