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What does it mean?
A rhetorical question questioning whether society reduces human freedom to confinement and religion.
In plain terms
Is the world just jails and churches?
What can you take from it?
Question restrictive institutions that control lives.

Where it applies

  • social critique
  • personal reflection
  • protest

Putting it to work

  • question authority
  • seek freedom
  • critique institutions

Questions to consider

  • Do institutions limit freedom?
  • What else makes up the world?

Another view

Churches and prisons serve different social functions.

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