From the beginning of Chapter 10:
"It took me a long time, as a man, a foreigner, and a species of Christian--I was that as much as anything--to get any clear understanding of the religion of Herland."
This speaks to the many flawed facets of the viewpoints of the three boys, as I feel like it culturally does distort our lens a little bit. In a smaller context, patriarchal Christianity would seem totally unfit to the form and function of Herland. The women are disturbed at the seemingly-undeserving eternal punishment damning babies for eternity following the Fall of Man, and rightly so. On a greater scale, the "species" of Christianity has me wondering if the women seem mystical or alien enough to feel entirely inhuman or if there is a closer connection than we think and the factors of man and Christianity would aim to distort actualization of those similarities.
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