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A perfect religion cannot exist, truths about the nature of religion in a materialistic culture is conveyed in Chirtosper Moore in Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. Showing the unnecessary problems religions brought by mainly the roman catholic and greed in society. This is shown in the story of Biff and Jesus in their journey seeking the perfect religion, a journey starting from childhood filled with magic, healing, kung-fu, summoning of corpse and demons. Realizing that all religions are corrupt starting from Islam in Jerusalem to Hinduism in India. Therefore a religion reflects the needs of a superstructure, due to the greed of capitalism in a materialistic culture. Alienation caused by the bourgeoisie origins, the desire for change in belief and lastly the new belief reveals to reflect the values of the superstructure. Making gods word a new language, using this they are able to exploit the proletariats.
Christopher Moore in the novel, Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal uses irony to convey the message that religion reflects the values of the superstructure. Where in a materialistic culture, the bourgeoisie abuse the proletariats in the name of god using religion. Proletariats have no voice in religion, and are seen as commodities, which causes them to accept the ideologies promoted by the superstructure in a Patriarchal society. Therefore, proletariats become alienated from species of essence, where proletariats internalize their “coded role” in a materialistic culture, just like Joshua follows his.
"Well, it is written, two out of three ain't bad."…"So they don't know that it was me?"…you can't do that sort of thing in front of people? They aren't ready for it."He was right,...

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...ructure will always affect the values of everything.
Therefore as Christopher Moore conveyed using Lamb: The gospel According to Biff, Christ’s childhood friend. Religion reflects the values of the superstructure, creating the need for more. Then Proletariats change their beliefs, because the want for enlightenment from a corrupt religion. The new beliefs reflect the values of the superstructure, therefore becoming corrupt. In the end, in any religion, proletariats do not have a voice or any values of the superstructure. Therefore the only way to be enlightened within the superstructure, is to be poor, like Bartholomew the village idiot. Therefore the only way to be enlightened in religion is to have no religion. God meant peace, people brought war, god wanted apples, people wanted to conquer the world. God shined light, but people brought darkness upon themselves.

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