William Arthur Ward once said, "True religion is a way of life, not a white cloak to be wrapped around us on the Sabbath and then tossed aside in the you are the closet of indifference." Religion is the one thing that people can usually tolerate but never agree with. Every faith seems to have the tidy assumption of having the correct thoughts about how to live your life or how to think about things or how to act in certain situations. However, each religion has its "sub-religions". If anyone is referring to Christianity, there are several religions that are covered under that umbrella: Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Pentecostal, and Presbyterian are just a handful. The inconsistencies associated with everyone's beliefs about religion lead to deeper ruts of confusion. This confusion leads people to have distorted opinions about what they believe and what their religion is about. This is not unlike feelings about Christian slavery in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Throughout the novel, Christianity is presented in different lights; as a twisted and warped glimpse of what religion should be with undertones of bigotry and prejudice, an innocent but naive child who brings joy to everyone he meets, and like Uncle Tom himself, the standard for what a Christian should do . To be. These different representations of the Christian life come from Stowe's beliefs about Christians and bring them to light. Many people in Harriet Beecher Stowe's time and even now view religion as a means to escape the obligation of having to go to Hell to be part of a religion. What these people don't understand is that there is more to just being able to say they are Christians and get out of punishment for their sins. They must be examples of what it means to be religious and practice it with fervor and commitment. Miss Ophelia was Stowe's embodiment of these people who try to cheat their way out of spiritual punishment. He admits to having feelings of bigotry towards blacks. "I have always had a prejudice against Negroes [...] and as a matter of fact, I could never bear that little girl to touch me; but I didn't think she knew it" (246). Miss Ophelia's aversion towards African Americans demonstrates that to be human is to be imperfect; however, it is still not Christian to be this way.