Bokononism

Cat’s Cradle is a very interesting book so far, and not only the content of the book, but even the layout of the chapters. The fact that each chapter is so short relates with the theory of postmodernism because of what we already talked about in class, which was the fact that society today is so unfocused that the author decided to make each chapter like an episode in a television series. This I believe is a very true statement because of the fact that at least for me it’s really hard to sit down and read a book and get everything it has to say. The way this book is written I believe will be a huge factor in my desire to reading it.
Now the deeper stuff. So far from what I’ve read I find it really weird how the story starts off by introducing this strange so called religion called Bokononism. The author describes this religion by saying, “We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a Karass.” These Karasses were filled with random people that usually didn’t even ever meet. Just as it says in the “Fifty-third Calypso” written by Bokonon, “Oh a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park, and a lion-hunter in the jungle dark, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen—All fit together in the same machine,” This verifies that anyone anywhere on Earth can be a part of a certain Karass. I’m not sure what exactly to think about all of this yet, but as far as the religion part of it goes I think this is whack and I don’t understand how or why the author would convert from Christianity to “the religion of lies”, but I hope this will be discussed in further reading.