Religion

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>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Religion
>Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:30:32 -0600
>
>
>Good Goilly Miss Moilly!
>
>Eric!
>Thank you for such a rush of fresh air!

>And I did acknowledge that religion offers comfort,
>>just as
>>a "good" company offers its employees "benefits.

All saving graces do come from the compassionate Buddha.
But of course the "benefits" are suffering, impermanence,
and no-self.



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

And would you also say the same of the Bhagavad Gita's
doctrines of heavenly manifestations and social stratifications?
Just a corporate power chart? A fascistic vision of purity?
The oldest but perfectly contemporary and vigorous tradition,
a cultural manifestation of a religious form of life fascistic?
The Pure Lands, what would say of Pure Lands, you have compared the concept 
of purity in Christianity with Hitler's obsessions with such. I'm not 
defending the Vatican David. I asking Eric to stop
vilifying religion here.



What, here on earth,
>>is
>>Vatican City? Nothing wrong with purity, of course -- Hitler was a great
>>hygiene and anti-smoking crusader among his other campaigns against
>>blackness.



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