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When we think about our history, there were many situations that people refuge to accept. During the first century in Greece, most people were Christian. Both slave masters and slaves believed in God. They also had a strong faith to priests who were people authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion. They had a very strong power on people. To prevent slaves from resisting their masters' rule, the priests said many things that could control slaves’ minds. They always told slaves to serve their masters as if they were serving Christ, with morals, faithfulness, and respectfulness.”  Slaves were told that “their suffering was similar to the suffering that Christ endured”. Sometimes the priests also took quotes from the bible to make their opinions stronger.  That is what all slaves were told to be and do to their masters. For many slaves, a priest’s speech was God’s message, so they really believed in that. Masters’ treatment of slaves and slaves’ obedience to the masters were justified by priests. That is how masters tamed their slaves. During this time, the misfortune of slaves and unfair relationship between slaves and masters were nothing wrong. Even if slaves did not want to be a slave and endured such a painful time period, they willingly chose to be a slave as God said to do so.

If people who live in this time period looked at this situation and were asked what they think about it, they will say that the slaves who completely believed in priests lacked good judgment and they would not understand them. If I compare this story with "The allegory of the cave", They seem to be very similar. The slaves were in the cave and they thought that this was real. In my opinion, to get rid of our caves, we should try to see things differently and widely so that we can at least find out real world that we could not recognize.