How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #1
But, dear Satan, I beg you, an eye a little less inflamed! And while awaiting my few cowardly little deeds, for you who prize in a writer the lack of descriptive or instructive skill, for you, I tear off these few hideous pages from my notebook of a damned soul. (11)
Well that didn't take very long. We've only gone ten lines and the speaker's already dedicating his poem to Satan. Clearly we should be buckling up for a some pretty anti-Christian sentiment.
Quote #2
I remember nothing more distant than this country and Christianity. I'd never be finished with viewing myself in this past. But always alone: without a family: what language, even, did I speak? I never see myself in the counsels of Christ: nor in the councils of the Lords – representatives of Christ. (22)
These lines are telling, because they're not aimed at Christianity per se. Instead, Christianity becomes synonymous with society here. The speaker is more alone because he's outside of the conventions of the religion and alienated from those that represent religious teaching. Christianity's just another community to him—one he doesn't belong to, that is.
Quote #3
'Priests, professors, masters, you're wrong to hand me over to justice. I've never been part of this race. I've never been a Christian: I'm of the race that sings under torture: I don't understand the law: I've no moral sense, I'm a brute: you're wrong...' (44)
Again, the speaker sees himself as outside of Christianity—not so much as a form of protest or critique, but as a marker of social separation (see "Themes: Isolation"). Maybe it's not Christianity he's mad at here, but western society as a whole. Or maybe he just needs a hug.