Jim’s father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing the ease of mind of those whom an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions.
Indoctrination for unthinking people?
As a minister, his approach should be consistent and unbiased regardless of socio-economic status!
Perpetuating the idea that their low social status is justified or ordained by god stifling critical thinking and discouraging lower classes from questioning social hierarchy, reinforcing resignation or fatalism to their position in society, consistent with Marxist ideology critical of religion as a tool for maintaining social control and class hierarchies! The absolute truth of the word of god should be the same regardless of socio-economic status.
The idea of absolute truth of the word of god is (in the real, rational world), relative and context based-- but should not need be if it were absolute.
See: The Ruined Cottage by Wordsworth. Reinforcing existing social order.
