Religion justifies resignation by promising asexual heavenly reward

Evidence

But especially, it confirms the world order; it justifies resignation by bringing hope for a better future in an asexual heaven. This is why today women are still a powerful asset in the hands of the Church; it is why the Church is so hostile to any measure that might facilitate their emancipation. Women must have religion; there must be women, “real women,” to perpetuate religion. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1766

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the Hegelian master-slave and Marx’s ‘opium of the people’ critique; also connects to the earlier chapter on myth and the conservative function of the myth of woman.
• SEED: Angle for an essay on how religious institutions structurally depend on maintaining gender subordination they claim to merely bless.