Summary: The Ignorance Of Religion By H. G. Wells

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“The Ignorance of Religion”
8th grade is ending, and a child sits in the pews at their local church communion. Those around them have their hands together, and heads down in prayer. Having been shoved through the industrial processor of religion of their parents choice, they sit in a group that they don’t relate to. Sure they’ve enjoyed their time with friends on Wednesday evening during religion classes, but the whole religion thing doesn’t make sense to them. Although he was born over 130 years ago, the author of The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells, felt very similarly on the topic. He was a skeptic of religious ethics in the world. Wells did not believe that the leaders of the church were pure, and they also abused their power to …show more content…

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.(Matthew 10:16)” These innocent people attempting to make a blissful lifestyle sometimes lead themselves into the seemingly loving arms of power hungry tyrants. Wells makes many attacks on religion through his characters in The Island of Doctor Moreau. He even has his god figure, Moreau, question God many times. Some notable occurrences being “Is there a god? And if so, why does he not show himself?” (Moreau 94), “Is there a god? And if so, why does he not show himself?” (Moreau 94). He even goes as far to say the interpretation of religion is wrong, and that he has the correct idea, "Then I am a religious man, Prendick, as every sane man must be. It may be I fancy I have seen more of the ways of this world's Maker than you—for I have sought his laws, in my way" Dr. Moreau is not as successful a creator as God or even frankenstein, the only way for his process to “work” is through a painful bloody long process(14.26).” Moreau says he's a religious man/scientist. He states religion and science are not in conflict, and that only the wrong idea of religion that people like Prendick have. Even Montgomery questions Moreau’s

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