Written in 1941 by Jorge Luis Borges, The Babylon Lottery expresses the writer's agnostic and anti-Nazi beliefs through the use of science fiction. Argentina, Borges' homeland, supported the Axis powers during World War II. Borges, known for his philosophical rather than political writings (Laraway, 563); uses this science fiction short story to describe and challenge beliefs about religion as well as the use of religion as a tool by world empires. The Babylon Lottery is a science fiction short story about a mythical city with a historic name. A lottery began as a game initiated by merchants and enjoyed by the common people of Babylon. Babylonian society grew bored of the game because the lottery entrepreneurs could not afford to continue. A negative aspect was established in the lottery, a fine was imposed on the owners of certain tickets. If the unfortunate ticket holder refused to pay the fine, he was imprisoned. This increased the popularity and power of the lottery. The lottery became so popular that it became obligatory as a cultural norm and the Company became the all-powerful ruler of Babylon. All of society participates and accepts its rewards and consequences. The Society, by inciting the public to believe that the world is chaotic and at the mercy of chance, becomes an empire. Borges uses the Society metaphorically in the science fiction story The Babylon Lottery to explain how the Nazis manipulated religion and the occult to contribute to the growth of the Nazi Empire. The proof that the Society is a metaphor for the Nazi Party begins in the title. Babylon, according to Laraway, “. . . . is widely accepted to denote not only a generic sort of antithesis of Israel, but more...... middle of article ......litical Studies, 32(2), 190-202.4) Schwartz, D. (2010). Luck and the domain of distributive justice. European Journal of Philosophy, 18(2), 244-261. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00342.x5) Kurlander, E. (2012). Hitler's monsters: the occult roots of Nazism and the emergence of the Nazi “supernatural imagination”*. German History, 30(4), 528-549.6) Carey, J. and Paulhus, D. (2013). Worldview implications of belief in free will and/or determinism: politics, morality, and punitiveness. Journal of Personality, 81(2), 130-141. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00799.x7) Poewe, K. O. (2006). New religions and the Nazis. New York: Routledge.8) Phelps, R.H. (1963). “Before the arrival of Hitler: the Thule Society and Germanen Orden. » Journal of modern history, 35(3), 245-61.9) Ellic Howe, Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff, unpublished typescript (1968), p.. 67.