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This part is very graphic, even though it is not very ‘sexy’. He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia, had contributed his share of the Green Berets.” (pg. “Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. If they were more open minded and accepting of people then they probably would not have a reputation of being such a mean group of people. They don’t understand how much damage Christians have done throughout history, so it just brings out the worst in them. If someone is not well connected within the church, then they usually are the people who the Christians go against. There are many instances throughout history that show how violent and cruel Christians can be in the name of God. I thought that this was interesting because he’s not wrong. There could be many views on the same book, but since the book that he is talking about is the Bible, then many people are offended and do not appreciate seeing it from a different view.Īnother reason that people probably do not like this section is because it talks about how all Christians are violent. What Vonnegut is trying to explain here is that some people who don’t necessarily grow up Christian can have a different view on what could be in the Gospel. But if they read the passage in context, then they should understand that it is just a different perspective on the Bible. I think that people immediately read this section and think that it is anti-Christian. They do not like the idea of Vonnegut describing Jesus as “God’s bum son” and don’t understand the entire meaning of the passage. Since they are talking about Jesus and changing the idea of what should be in the Bible, then people are against it. This entire section is a huge controversy and is one of the reasons why people wanted to ban the book. God said this: From this moment on, He will punish horribly anybody who torments a bum who has no connections!” (pg.

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He told the people that he was adopting the bum as his son, giving him the full powers and privileges of The Son of the Creator of the Universe throughout all eternity. The reader would have to think that, too, since the new Gospel hammered home again and again what a nobody Jesus was.Īnd then, just before the nobody died, the heavens opened up, and there was thunder and lightning. There couldn’t possibly be any repercussions, the lynchers thought. So the people amused themselves one day by nailing him to a cross and planting the cross in the ground. He still got to say all the lovely and puzzling things he said in all of the other Gospels. In it, Jesus really was a nobody, and a pain in the neck to a lot of people with better connections than he had. The visitor from outer space made a gift to Earth of a new Gospel. Readers understood that, so, naturally thought, and Rosewater read aloud again: Oh, boy- they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time! And that thought had a brother: ‘ There are right people to lynch.’ Who? People not well connected. The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn’t look like much, was actually the son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, even to the lowest of the low.īut the Gospels actually taught this: Before you kill someone, make sure he absolutely isn’t well connected. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament. “The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. It is a bit inappropriate and there are many parents who would not be okay with scene because of the content and description of the picture.

This is probably one of the obscene parts that people would want to censor. He probably had the picture because most people get bored with the war and this is something that men can use to pass the time.

They were describing what Weary was carrying with him, which included this dirty photograph. This passage is when Billy is in the war and wandering the forest with Roland Weary and some other soldiers. The picture that Weary had was a print of the first dirty photograph in history.” (pg. In front of one column was a potted palm. The women and the pony were posed before velvet draperies which were fringed with deelee-balls. He had made Billy Pilgrim admire that picture several times. “He had a dirty picture of a woman attempting sexual intercourse with a Shetland pony. There are some inappropriate innuendos in several of these passages, just know you have been warned.* *These are the passages and reasons why this book is banned and challenged in many high schools around the country.

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