religious vilification

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Thu Feb 1 08:34:20 CST 2001


Quite right, mu. Other times other places other victims.  In another
dispensation than the present it might be possible to laugh at Bill Bradley
because he's too tall.


P. (on the Road to Santa Monica)

Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/1/01 6:44:59 AM, paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:
>
> << Even though Christian vilification is unlikely to end up in a reign of
> persecution as might be the case with other  religious or ethnic groups,  it
> still strikes a lot of people, including me,  as both boorish and provincial.
> Not something our P would be a part of.
>
>                                         P. >>
>
> Not *always* the case though was it? There was a time when such an endeavor
> could get the majority up and ready to join into some "orthogonal" dance,
> right? And then there are the critical times, *the cusps* I believe Pynchon
> likes to call them, when opportunity itself seems to call the tune.
>
> Perhaps Constantine's mom could help us here. She oughta know.

>
>
> mu




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