"I says, ‘Maybe it ain’t a sin. Maybe it’s just the way folks is. Maybe we been whippin’ the hell out of ourselves for nothin’."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 4. Jim Casy, who slept with girls in his congregation while he was a preacher, doesn’t believe that his attraction and passion for women was sinful. Here he rejects the conventional religious teaching that shames and guilts people for human frailty.