Chimney sweeper experience

• "they have both gone to church to pray"


  The illusion that religion creates and morally justifies ignoring oppression as it lets people do their part through prayer
• "because I was happy... They clothed me in death and taught me to sing the notes of woe"


  Jealous of youth or exploration of childhood joy. Certain death of job
• "because I dance and sing... They think they have done me no injury"


  The facade of childhood he now has to deploy for society despite the true pain, and the lack of parental regard+ long lasting effects of exploitation
• "to praise God his priest and king, who make a heaven of our misery "


  The hypocrisy of the church, exploitation in the name of God and justified through repenting to God, "religion is the opiate of the masses"- Marx and religion as an excuse for oppression