Religion has been the topic of debates, and often war for as long as humans have walked the earth, at times, most of us find it difficult to even define it, but we know it when we see it. Religion, according to Karl Marx, “is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.” Vonnegut takes the idea of religion and attempts to use it to open the reader’s mind to new possibilities. Bokononism tells us that peace is only obtainable when there is a balance between good and bad, right and wrong. Vonnegut creates words around the Bokononist religion, for example, a karass is a group of people linked together to carry out God’s will. Vonnegut uses the Books of Bokonon to mock other holy scriptures. Finally, uses the apocalypse at the end of the book to mock many religions’ belief that the world will have a fantastic and mythical end. In the novel, the author uses satire to ridicule religion as a whole.
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The Books are a symbol that represents other religious texts because nearly every religion on earth has some kind of holy book. The Bible, the Koran, the Torah, the Shruti, etc. By the time Jonah finds him, Bokonon has grown old and become an insane, pessimistic shell of his former self. The way Bokonon uses the Books to control the people of San Lorenzo is comparable to other holy text. For example, our entire modern society is based on the one formed hundreds of years ago in Europe by
The Books are a symbol that represents other religious texts because nearly every religion on earth has some kind of holy book. The Bible, the Koran, the Torah, the Shruti, etc. By the time Jonah finds him, Bokonon has grown old and become an insane, pessimistic shell of his former self. The way Bokonon uses the Books to control the people of San Lorenzo is comparable to other holy text. For example, our entire modern society is based on the one formed hundreds of years ago in Europe by