In chapter 9, I noticed a biblical reference that made me look at my knowledge of Christianity through a completely different lens. Kilgore Trout's perception of religion is fascinatingly unorthodox.
One of Trout's novel tells about a man who travels back in time in order to meet Jesus. He finds himself in the wood shop owned by Jesus and his father. The story says that, "Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built by sunrise the next morning. It was a cross to be used in the execution of a rabble-rouser" (202).
According to the Bible, Jesus was executed on a cross by Roman soldiers, so the irony of the situation does not go unnoticed. If Jesus was as kind and benevolent as he is represented in the Bible, then he would have refused to build such an evil object. However, he seems glad to have the business, and gets to work. Why does Vonnegut choose to represent Jesus so differently from the way he is known in the present to the general population?
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