"When we have been traumatized in any way there is always the (usually unconscious) drive to re-create the traumatic situation and this time to prevail, to gain ascendancy over what defeated us before. The greater the trauma, the more powerful this drive to surmount it."

- Robin Norwood

"The great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication."

- Revelation 17:1-2 (KJV)