Religion

[jbor]

It appears to me that, in trying to argue that Pynchon's texts disdain 
Calvinism/the Puritans (and thus Protestantism?), "gnosticism/s" etc but
*not* Catholicism (and then in offering supplementary denunciations of
Buddhism, animism etc), you are making the case that Pynchon's texts (and
thus Pynchon?) privilege Catholicism over all other religious creeds and
belief systems. This seems bizarre, particularly in light of those
barely-faded phosphorescences emanating from Fra Fairing's Parish in _V._

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

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> Pynchon specifically identifies Calvinism, and in particular
> the Puritanism of Slothrop's New England forebears, as the
> precursor of this modern religion of death.


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> I'm not suggesting that I know or that I care to know or
> care to discuss anything about P's personal religious
> practices or beliefs or lack there of.

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>  I'm not
> defending the Vatican David. I asking Eric to stop
> vilifying religion here.