being a religious man, in his utopian state, Bellamy found no place for the religion as such i.e. no churches, denominations or clergy exist. To understand this misfit, we need to ask ourselves but one question-is there religion in Heaven? In the eyes of Bellamy those who prayed about the Kingdom of Heaven to come in the afterlife and failed to fix the conditions for their fellow humans in this life were hypocrites. In his next work Equality (Chapter 32) Bellamy explains: “the revelation which came to Christ so long ago and to other illumined souls could not possibly be received by mankind in general so long as an inhuman social order made a wall between man and God, and why, the moment that wall was cast down, the revelation flooded the earth like a sunburst”.
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