God save us from religion.

The line reads as a pointed paradox: invoking God while asking to be protected from “religion.” In Eddings’s fictional worlds, organized religion is often portrayed as a human institution prone to power-seeking, hypocrisy, and violence, distinct from genuine spirituality or moral decency. The quote can be taken as a critique of dogma and clerical authority—suggesting that the social machinery of religion may corrupt the very values it claims to uphold. It also functions as a sardonic, character-revealing remark: a speaker who is not necessarily irreligious, but deeply wary of religious institutions and the harms done in their name.