Gospel of Thomas

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Since I'm the guy who gets hag's flamethrusters reared up so often w/ what he 
takes to be--religious--statements, just wanna toss in that the apocryphal epigraph 
from the Gospel of Thomas in GR--

Dear Mom, I put a couple of people in Hell today

--got me interested in the gospel of Thomas (boy, that's some coincidence, with the 
name thing and all, isn't it?) which I dug up and read, and the picture of Christ 
presented there would even meet w/ your approval, hag old nun,  And of course 
the fact that the Catholic church (neither Roman, Greek, Coptic or any other I know 
of) won't recognize Thomas's gospel as legitimate might indicate that 
Pynchon's--redemption--of it, and perhaps his connection to the spirit, has nothing 
to do with any church, or state, or state church or church/state or theme park. 

john m

ps  Not even hinting at the question, best reserved for another list, that the church 
functions by contradicting everything Christ said and did.