Is The Great Gatsby About Religion

This is the 100th anniversary of the book that ranks among the classics in this county. Probably everyone who reads this has read that book or seen one of the movies. I've done both because I can't stop.

Everyone, including myself, thinks they understands the message of the book. It never occurred to me anyone could think of it as a book about religion, especially the Catholic denomination. I should have been smarter and remembered whatever a reader has in his/her mind is what will be seen in the story. That's me, I have class on my mind. If I were a devout Catholic I would see that. 

According to the link, F. Scott Fitzgerald was dumped by a girl because of class. He grew up in Minneapolis and his ethnic heritage including the Catholic denomination is in his name. He lost interest in the church as a young man and never returned.

That did not prevent the Catholic author of the link to read into Gatsby religious themes. The story is a confession, it is that wealth does not bring happiness, that things come to an end and other things he says came from Fitzgerald's youth and Catholic training. So far as I know, Fitzgerald never said these things.

For myself, the story is about an outsider looking at the world. It is about class and the carelessness that can come with wealth. It doesn't matter what I think, it is great fiction because all of us can find something in our non fiction world that resembles what Fitsgerald saw in his characters. May the book live on another hundred years and yet more versions appear on screen.