In God We Trust

I have been keeping up lately with my reading on Slaughterhouse Five, to find myself reading a puzzle of ideas and situations in chapter three. Vonnegut, the author of the novel, manages to mix and match events of the past and future with the actual moment in the book. Even though you would expect for it to be a mess of ideas and a revolt of thoughts, the writer keeps astonishing us with his capacity to convey so much in such a clear state.

I could not keep on reading without having to note the fact that Roland Weary had a bulletproof bible. This is not because of the irony of his personality which reflects the complete opposite of that of having a bible (well it kind of is), but it shocked me even more when remembering the story of Pope John Paul the Second. He was one walking through the Saint Peter’s Square when he was shot. The bullet missed his heart and instead hit a medal of the virgin he was wearing around his neck that day, which remarkably saved his life. The bulletproof bible that Weary had in the inside of his jacket accomplished the same purpose, yet we are never told if it saved his life or it did not.

I had never heard of such thing as a bulletproof bible, yet I wonder if it ever saved someone’s life at the battle field.

In God we will always trust.