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Religion is said to be the opiate of the masses, and it is definitely a point of interest in George Orwell's famous novel Animal Farm. In it, Orwell pointedly attacks religion in general and Christianity in particular through the use of a well placed symbolic bird by the name of Moses. Orwell's stance is rather apparent as Moses darts about the farm scene conveying the duality of Christianity quite superbly. At the first mention of …

…organized religion in the same way that Orwell was. Bonhoeffer acquired his feelings of negativity towards the church through their participation (or lack thereof) in the Holocaust. How could such a seemingly benevolent and peace-loving institution turn its back on such horror, he asked, and still rant in "the same strain as ever about Sugercandy Mountain" (76). The author believes an identical point was being made by George Orwell in his amazingly poignant and thought-provoking novel.