Religious Extremes In a world that experienced a nuclear devastation, new times have begun, as a post atomic society is left to pick up the pieces and start over. In the little town of Waknuk, most of the pieces were lost, and now the basis of their society is built upon an extreme form of the Christian Religion. Just as in the olden day’s religion rules over everything, however, when religious beliefs in Waknuk …showed first 75 words of 406 total…

…showed last 75 words of 406 total…mind richly stored with examples from the bible and Nicholson’s Repentances’” (16). Their religious belief’s forced them to fall in line with the rest of society, not announce the birth of a new child until after it has been inspected, and live among each other with fear. The people pf Waknuk will not accept any type of change, be it physical or psychological. So accepting deviants as humans is out the question for them.