When Society Plays God
Thomas More’s book Utopia illustrates the customs and practices of a faraway island through the voice of a character named Raphael Nonsenso. The book advocates state ownership of land and provides a detailed analysis of how the island’s society is run efficiently. Raphael covers the different aspects of the island’s society and discusses how they have formed their ideals and their customs and why they live the way they do. According to More’s writing the natives of Utopia lead fairly decent and positive lives in a healthy communal or communist society. Utopia society seems like an almost perfectly run nation, but the Utopians are actually extremely morally corrupt and Godless because they support a communist government. Utopia is a society that has succeeded with a communist system of government because they have divorced themselves from the morals of God. Raphael Nonsenso, is a man More describes as “quite the scholar” and a man who wanted to see the world and during his travels he ...