So obviously any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior and even sometimes consequences and they don't want to hear any of that.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark of night of the other side of things.

A great city whose image dwells in the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world Art.