Faith & Spirit Quote by Rebecca H. Davis

A single sentence, and it lands like a slap: hate not as a feeling you drift into, but as a creed you inherit. Rebecca H. Davis frames anti-British animus as "part of your religion", a phrase that weaponizes the language of devotion to expose how political identity hardens into moral certainty. The line doesn’t just describe prejudice; it diagnoses the machinery that makes prejudice feel righteous.

The genius is in the pronoun. "Your" points outward, implicating a community - a tribe - without granting it the dignity of self-definition. Davis suggests this hatred is liturgical: learned early, repeated often, policed by social pressure. Religion here isn’t spirituality; it’s ritualized belonging. To hate becomes proof that you’re one of the faithful, the kind of performance that substitutes for argument. That’s why the sentence works: it compresses the whole ecosystem of grievance into a domestic, almost casual observation, as if it’s as ordinary as table manners.

Contextually, it resonates with the long afterlife of empire and revolution in the Anglophone world: centuries of British power, American independence mythology, and local histories where "the British" function as a convenient antagonist. Davis is also nudging at how nations curate enemies to stabilize their own narratives. If hating the British is religious, then the target matters less than the cohesion the hatred produces - a shared sin repackaged as shared virtue.