It either covers everything, or it isn't religion.

Religion never has seemed to me (I don't know if I'm wrong) one thing, like other things, so that you can change about and back again....

It's either the background and foreground all in one, or it's a kind of game.

It's either true, or it's a pretense.
"Well, all this, in a way, taught me it was absolutely true.

Things wouldn't have held together at all unless it was true.