parodies its commercialization, while Burgess attacks the mob mentality of religious people and Vonnegut explores the meaninglessness of religious practice.
In Survivor, ‘the good people of Tender Branson Enterprises’ take the shameless commercialization of religion to hilarious extremes. This is illustrated by the tacky merchandizing of Tender’s religious fame such as ‘the Bible Diet…the book Money-Making Secrets of the Bible…The Tender Branson Dashboard Statuette.’ Tender himself is acutely aware of this ridiculousness, wryly remarking of his own board game ‘Bible Trivia’, ‘”As if anything God says is trivial”’. Palahniuk’s point is abundantly clear: modern religion has become a sacrament of consumption where ignorance is mass-produced. …show more content…
In an apparent contradiction to the Bible, The Books of Bokonon writes, ‘Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on ’. The mystery of God and his work remains present within Bokononism , but unlike the traditional religions, Bokononism concedes to the idea that the workings of God should not and will never be understood. Even though characters in the novel speak of Jesus and other religious icons, they do so because they need ‘to keep their voice boxes in working order in case there’s ever anything meaningful to say’. This demonstrates the Bokononist view of life by asserting that these icons mean …show more content…
Through boko-maru, Vonnegut reminds us that rituals are important because it works as a salve for the participant (‘people who do that really do feel better about each other and the world’) and less because the process has any true value, which it does not. Not only do the fertility rites in The Wanting Seed restore a semblance of order to society, they are also mirrored by a burst of regeneration of fauna because ‘that blight had been man’s refusal to breed’. Inexplicably, Burgess’ bacchanals surprisingly and mysteriously reboot the infertile Earth (as God works in mysterious ways). Finally, the jaundiced agent of Tender in Survivor capitalizes on the comforting quality of prayer by publishing a sacrilegious Book of Very Common Prayer. Funnily enough, this book does actually help its readers by with its absurdly self-absorbed prayers by functioning as a placebo (‘men were reciting the Prayer to Delay Orgasm, and it works at least as well as multiplication
In Survivor, ‘the good people of Tender Branson Enterprises’ take the shameless commercialization of religion to hilarious extremes. This is illustrated by the tacky merchandizing of Tender’s religious fame such as ‘the Bible Diet…the book Money-Making Secrets of the Bible…The Tender Branson Dashboard Statuette.’ Tender himself is acutely aware of this ridiculousness, wryly remarking of his own board game ‘Bible Trivia’, ‘”As if anything God says is trivial”’. Palahniuk’s point is abundantly clear: modern religion has become a sacrament of consumption where ignorance is mass-produced. …show more content…
In an apparent contradiction to the Bible, The Books of Bokonon writes, ‘Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on ’. The mystery of God and his work remains present within Bokononism , but unlike the traditional religions, Bokononism concedes to the idea that the workings of God should not and will never be understood. Even though characters in the novel speak of Jesus and other religious icons, they do so because they need ‘to keep their voice boxes in working order in case there’s ever anything meaningful to say’. This demonstrates the Bokononist view of life by asserting that these icons mean …show more content…
Through boko-maru, Vonnegut reminds us that rituals are important because it works as a salve for the participant (‘people who do that really do feel better about each other and the world’) and less because the process has any true value, which it does not. Not only do the fertility rites in The Wanting Seed restore a semblance of order to society, they are also mirrored by a burst of regeneration of fauna because ‘that blight had been man’s refusal to breed’. Inexplicably, Burgess’ bacchanals surprisingly and mysteriously reboot the infertile Earth (as God works in mysterious ways). Finally, the jaundiced agent of Tender in Survivor capitalizes on the comforting quality of prayer by publishing a sacrilegious Book of Very Common Prayer. Funnily enough, this book does actually help its readers by with its absurdly self-absorbed prayers by functioning as a placebo (‘men were reciting the Prayer to Delay Orgasm, and it works at least as well as multiplication