ke the focus from their horribly useless lives. The idea is for the religion and the government to constantly oppose each other, with Bokonon the saintly outlaw hiding in the woods. By this entire scheme Vonnegut makes the point that religion is formed out of lies in order to make the lives of the people living by the religion bearable. The cat's cradle relates to this because that is what a cat's cradle is, a gam
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