why I am not a Hindoo

[David Morris]

--- Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
> But, Courtney, this was my point:
> No orthodox Roman Catholicism but syncretism - that is, if we are dealing
with a religious view of the world here at all. If Pynchon is indeed up to
this, the interesting question would be whether this syncretism can be
contained within Catholicism

Personally I can't belive that P is dealing literally w/ the RC Church at all,
merely using it as a vehicle for ideas, so the issue of orthodoxy seems to me a
very small one.  In fact neither Fausto's nor the Bad Priest have orthodox
beliefs, so who's conception of RC is more "valid."  Neither is.  But their
ideas can be compared and contrasted.  Actually at the writing of his
confessions Fausto had defined himself as one who'd grown into "disbelief" (or
something close to that), so he can hardly be a stand-in for the RC Church. 
But the Confessions are a serious look at the issue of belief and reality, not
that I'll try to give it a one-line encapsulation here.

David Morris

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