Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince provides controversial ideals on which to maintain and control power in a kingdom; although it may be very detailed and seemingly accurate advice, that doesn’t make any of it ethical or morally correct. This book is controversial because it shows rulers how to survive in the world as it is and not as it should be. It also brings about troubling questions and threatens beliefs on morality. A few ways that it threatens beliefs on morality is through revealing Renaissance values. Two values are secularism and realism. Machiavelli’s ideals on how to rule almost directly contradicts a large number of Church teachings. He essentially argues that, for rulers attempting to keep their states unified, the ends justify