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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
What was Steinbeck trying to get across to the reader when the preacher came into the story and told Tom Joad about his loss of the Holy Spirit and slepping with lots of girls in the grass? Was Steinbeck trying to attack Christianity by this or did it have something to relate to the Joads lossing their land and the absence of God in that situation?
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I think that maybe Stenbeck was commenting on the fact that people that encounter hard times give in to temptation a lot easier than comfy people.
I honestly don't know what Steinbeck's religious preferences were, but I doubt he was taking a jab at Christianity as a whole. What seems much more likely is that he is condemning the corruption that is inherent in the system. No matter the time period or the religion, at some point there will be some kind of scandal in the religious system. He may have been making a reference to that.
Steinback could turn out to be another author with a big Jesus figure featured throughout the novel. I agree with dr. acula, he does not seem to be attacking Christianity as a whole, but he clearly has beef with a particular sector of it
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