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 The only place that the disease of greed does not touch is Eldorado. Eldorado is a mythical city filled with gold and jewels. Everyone seeks Eldorado but very few reach it. Greed does not exist there because the gold and jewels have no value. There is so much of the gold that the inhabitants see them as pebbles on the ground. The people of Eldorado live peaceful lives. They are not greedy so they have no need to make war upon each other.
+===The Hypocrisy of Religion===
+The hypocrisy of religion is something that is very cleverly used in the works of Candide. Voltaire uses satire throughout the novel with the characters who are considered to be very religious men, who are actually doing the complete opposite of what is considered to be religious and moral.  Cunegonde is held as a prisoner of war and is bought and sold by men of religious beliefs.  “Finally my Jew, fearing for his life, struck a bargain by which the house and I would belong to both of them as joint tenants; the Jew would get Mondays, Wednesdays, and the Sabbath, the inquisitor would get the other days of the week” (388).
+Auto-da-fe, or an act of faith, are used to scare people.  In this novel, the Grand Inquisitor uses this tool to ensure that he gets to have Cunegonde for himself as well.  “The inquisitor threatened him with an auto-da-fe”(388).
+It is the characters who hold no place in society who are admired and sympathized with by Voltaire in the novel.  It is “a man who had never been baptized, a good Anabaptist named Jacques” who is the man who does the right thing in this novel (380).  He sees Candide as someone who needs help, so he offers everything that is at his disposal.  It seems as if religion is used a political strategy by the people higher up in society, but it is used as a way of life by the smaller men.
 ===Sexual Exploitation===