Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father (Beacon Press) 1973,
pg 144:
"To persons in whom the effects of socialization so overwhelm critical
judgment that their sense of reality is co-extensive with the world legitimated
by religious myth and ritual, the 'reasonableness' of even the most bizarre
and violent events thus legitimated seems unquestionable. Such persons
will fearfully resist the 'No' of the women's movement as Antichurch to
such legitimations. Others, who wield ideological and political power
and understand how to manipulate such fears will also resist this 'No'
by using religion and other instruments of social
control. Such instruments include the myth and institutions of 'mental
illness'...."