Babylon+OPE+Chris

Chris Kim 9F

Questions: What caused the story’s unique philosophy ?

Title: Let there be light, let there be religion!


 * During the massive attack of the cities, the people began to evacuate towards places where they can avoid additional attacks, as well as to avoid radiation. These movements because of the bomb changed peoples’ ways of thinking, as well as degrade their development in terms of technology.** As we start reading the first few parts of the story, the story clearly describes a setting where it is like the past; having mostly religious places to solve problems around the setting of the story. The story delivers ideas such as hunting instead of supermarkets, making it seem like a time period where it is in the past. Now John, the main character, decides to be unique from others and attempts to go to the place of God’s, where it is strictly forbidden. After going through documents, paintings, buildings, as well as skeletons of the humans, John soon realizes that the environment he was living on began from humans; not gods. It is found out in the story that the Place of the Gods was New York, and people where strictly forbidden to go there. “I went to the Place of the Gods, I would surely die, but, if I did not go, I could never be at peace with my spirit again. It is better to lose one's life than one's spirit, if one is a priest and the son of a priest.”. We can see infer now, that the people where forbidden to enter the Place of the Gods to degrade their use of technology, and because the attack caused much destruction, religion has taken place- initially the new government today.