Red Cavalry, Day 3

I'mkind of conflicted bout the religious element in RC. On the one hand, he speaks almost respectfully of it, and of the poor ordinry worshipers, like the cook or the Jewish men that have popped up in a few stories, but on the other hand, he seems distrustful or mocking of it, like talking about the priest's betrayal, or about the drunk and messy Jews, amongst which there are "the possesed, the liars, the unhinged"(page 71). The USSR under Stalin tried very hrd to stamp out religion,which may influence the author, but I think he's trying to say that religion is like people, in a smll group of the same tye of people you find the good the bad and the ugly, as mixed up, like the unnamed Jewish journalist finds the rabbi and his congregation,which includes the apparently crazy,and the apparently good.