Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle Analysis

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“There was one where he bet I couldn’t tell him anything that was absolutely true. So I told him,‘God is love.’ ”“And what did he say?”“He said, ‘What is God? What is love?’ ” -Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle pg. 55 Chapter: What’s God. There’s a lot of debate and speculation on whether religions are real, and if they are, which one. Even the people that believe in a certain religion often struggle with this ideal. However, there are people who strongly believe that they understand and know all of God’s doings.
Individuals all over the world are extremists in their religion, people such as Sergey Torop. Sergey claims to be God’s son and he is to spread god’s word. He is an extremist that preaches that god wants us to be strictly Vegetarian and

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