Equals?

As I continue reading this book I keep noticing all the sections of society that Voltaire satirizes and mocks about. The one that I'm going to point at is mainly the hipocrisy of religious leaders and aristocracy. In chapter 16 Cunegonde's brother tells Candide and Cacambo that the Jesuit priest that took him in order, chose him because he found the colonel physically attractive. The fact that he comments this may mean that there was some type of gay relationship between the priest and the colonel. What Voltaire is mocking about here is that Jesuits and all christianity derivatives publicly condemn homosexualism because it clearly states in the Bible that homosexuals will not reach heaven.

Another example resemblance of aristocratic hipocrisy is when the colonel refuses to let Cunegonde marry Candide. After the colonel was sent to Paraguay to become a priest and a colonel as well, he tells Candide that he plans to bring Cunegonde with him to Paraguay. Candide happily said that he will be joining them because he plans to marry Cunegonde. This plan does not please the colonel due to the fact that Candide is not of the nobility. The fact that the colonel knows everything that Candide and Cunegonde have been through should be enough reason for the colonel to at least keep his disgust to himself.