God and religion before every thing! ' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash.' Very well then, ' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland! ''John! John! ' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve. Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb. 'No God for Ireland! ' he cried, 'We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God! . James Joyce
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In the novel  The Name of the Rose,  Dante Alighieri wrote a poem titled "Inferno" about a man who is trapped below a mountain while searching for a sacred book. The poem is divided into three parts, where Dante talks about three different places in hell. In the third part of the poem, Dante talks about a man who says that he wants to return to where he came from and leave behind what he left behind. He says that he wants to leave God, religion and society alone.

Source: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

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