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Sometimes it is hard for people to see the truth about a certain situation because they want to believe that what is happening is a good thing. In Tartuffe, a play by Molière, the main character named Orgon is an elder man who is obviously trying to find something or someone that can make him feel youthful again. When Tartuffe comes into his life, it makes Orgon feel like a man again. He truly believes that Tartuffe is a holy man with only good intentions and everything that he is and preaches about is true. All the other characters seem to notice that Tartuffe is a fraud and try to warn Orgon. How can Orgon not realize that he is being manipulated and not listen to his loved ones. It may be that Orgon does not want to face the truth that he might have been wrong about Tartuffe. There are a lot of arguments about religion and if there is a God. Some believe that religion was created by man, which would have nothing to do with there being a God. When we truly have faith in religion we are devoted to it and we become completely oblivious to what is happing to us and around us becoming fearful and arrogant.
Orgon met Tartuffe in church and instantly fell a friendship between them. He then invites him to live with him at his home. Orgon is so enthralled in Tartuffe that he offers his daughters hand in marriage after he had already agreed that she marry someone else, that she truly loves and will kill herself if she is forced to marry Tartuffe. There is also a moment in time where Orgon completely ignores his wife and her health conditions. When Tartuffe tries to seduce Orgon’s wife, which his son witnessed, does not believe that Tartuffe is capable of such thing and disowns his son. Which then his wife proves to him that he did try...

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...not be accepted by others, another thing is that our minds, we, something to validate our life. We want to feel as though there is something worth looking for after we die. We don’t know a lot about things like what is the purpose of life, and what happens after we die. We have many questions and not many answers so we turn to religion to help us answer some of these questions. The mind is very powerful and that too we cannot explain. We do certain things that may not be good for us and try to make ourselves feel better.
Religion can blind people from seeing that the truth about reality. There is no proof that a benevolent being exists. Some people believe that they have experienced this being, God, and therefore believe that he exists. Belief is not limited to, any certain type of group. Religion can be said to limit us from being to find ourselves spiritually.

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