Slaughterhouse Five section IV (part III)

One very interesting thing I have found in Slaughterhouse Five is that Vonnegut references the Bible and Jesus several times. I know it can be a stretch to incorporate outside knowledge when analyzing a book, but I know that Vonnegut is a humanist. I read another one of his works, Cat's Cradle, and I learned that Vonnegut was not a big fan of organized religion. I find it interesting that a humanist would make several references to the Bible and Jesus without degrading the idea of God and Jesus. I know it seems closed minded of me to think that, but I think that Vonnegut uses these allusions because people can easily understand them. Also, I believe Vonnegut is still fascinated with the idea of the person Jesus was. At one point, Billy is in an adult store and reading a book by Kilgore Trout about a man that travels back in time to see if Jesus was really dead when he came off the cross. The man climbed the ladder to check and it said, "There wasn't a sound inside the emaciated chest cavity. The Son of God was dead as a doornail (p.203)." When I read this part I thought to myself, "Oh, this is it. This is the part of the book where Vonnegut is going to denounce Jesus." However, I was proved wrong, and Vonnegut used this as another way of showing the interesting ways history has been shaped through what is practically fate.