Religion

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>"If Jesus Christ returned today and saw what was being done in his name,
>he would never stop throwing up."  --Woody Allen ("Hannah and Her
>Sisters" -- speaking of which, Max von Sydow speaks another great line
>in that movie, approximately: "The mystery of the holocaust is not why
>it happened, but given what we know about human nature why it doesn't
>happen more often.")


Woody Allen also says, 90% of life is just showing up.

>
>But seriously, I mentioned Christianity because that was the topic. And
>I did acknowledge that religion offers comfort, just as a "good" company
>offers its employees "benefits."

Yes, and again you demonstrate that you have a good Firm grasp of
religion.

>
>What is the city of god, or the New Jerusalem but a fascistic vision of
>purity, or an idealized corporate power chart?

Right, now I get it.


>What, here on earth, is Vatican City?

Ford motor company in Italy or IBM?


Nothing wrong with purity, of course -- Hitler was a great
>hygiene and anti-smoking crusader among his other campaigns against
>blackness.

Hitler?

But as William Slothrop wrote (page 555), it is black Judas
>that saves the preterite.

Black Judas? No, William Slothrop did not write on Black
Judas, he wrote "On Preterition", wherein he argued
("feelings of action and reaction being in the air"), that
Everything in the Creation has an equal and opposite
counterpart, so that if Jesus was for the elect (an important qualification 
here Eric, and I'm happy to disabuse you
of this misreading of P's texts, is that William is not a
christian as you are applying the term here--a generalization)
Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite. He says, we have to
love Judas too. Where did William get this idea? Didn't
he get this idea in part by looking at the pigs and READING
what happened to them as a Parable?



>
>Tyrone, thinking of his ancestor (page 556), in another Zone where
>choices will be made, muses on America following Judas instead, thinks
>there might have been more kindness done in The Dark One's name and not
>so much evil done in The Anointed One's name.

Tyrone thinks, not Pynchon. It's a route back and therefore
disqualified. Not only is it a way back (a gnostic path)
it is a way that could have been in the begining or at the
fork in the road of the past or can be
after the destruction of..., that's why it's Tyrone's musing
and not TRP's.

Thanks for the context, the page numbers, it helps me to
get where you are coming from.
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