{"id":127,"date":"2017-06-10T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2017-06-10T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T16:46:10","slug":"religion-in-sci-fi-cats-cradle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Sci-Fi: Cat&#8217;s Cradle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I began to read Vonnegut\u2019s <em>Cat\u2019s Cradle<\/em> I was interested in his invented religion, Bokononism.\u00a0 It is a religion founded on lies.\u00a0 Quite in keeping with Vonnegut\u2019s humorous sarcasm.\u00a0 Humanity is organized into teams that do God\u2019s will without ever discovering what they are doing.\u00a0 The orbits of the members of the team about their common \u201cwampeter\u201d are spiritual orbits.\u00a0 This is an interesting variation on what I have written in my latest novel, <em>Perturbations Of The Reality Field<\/em>.\u00a0 However, my works are much less pessimistic.\u00a0 Vonnegut leads you laughing down the icy road, straight to Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I began to read Vonnegut\u2019s Cat\u2019s Cradle I was interested in his invented religion, Bokononism.\u00a0 It is a religion founded on lies.\u00a0 Quite in keeping with Vonnegut\u2019s humorous sarcasm.\u00a0 Humanity is organized into teams that do God\u2019s will without ever discovering what they are doing.\u00a0 The orbits of the members of the team about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}