06 August 2012
Religious Curiosity
I found the whole concept of the battle of religion to be the most interesting idea in this novel. Religion seemed to not only rule their beliefs, but it also controlled their overall life and actions. When a new idea was presented to a native, their beliefs, personality, and entire life would change to match this new faith. This seems like an extreme of loose religion on one end of the spectrum and on the other end is the religion in modern society where people of religion attack those of other beliefs due to their tight restrictions of faith. Would our society be better if we had loose religion or would Okonkwo's clan be better off using tight boundaries of faith?
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Their religion not only was a supernatural belief but also a constant way of life to serve the gods that they believed in. The religions we have today have the same general concept of serving the deity you believe in but our society no longer expect the follows to adhere to these rules. Religion is not such an integral part of life that we would kill ourselves because of a change such as Okonkwo did.
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