# What Religion and Credulity means in Erewhon Revisited

> The book explores how a single miraculous event can spawn a new religion, complete with temples, priests, relics, and exploitation of public faith, satirizing the development of religious institutions and the gullibility of followers.

## Explanation

The book explores how a single miraculous event can spawn a new religion, complete with temples, priests, relics, and exploitation of public faith, satirizing the development of religious institutions and the gullibility of followers.

Butler explicitly discusses how a single miraculous event can spawn a new religion, with temples, priests, and exploitation of public credulity.

The professors' debate over the Sunchild's prayer highlights how religious texts are altered to suit institutional and personal agendas.

The Erewhonians have deified Higgs and created a mythology around his balloon flight, showing how ignorance and myth spawn religion.

My father's reflections on the epitaph and Dr. Gurgoyle's pamphlet contrast with earlier Erewhonian critiques of heaven and hell, exploring beliefs about the afterlife.

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