who's Christian?

[Paul Mackin]

Hate to be a fawning sycophantic lapdog and actually agree with someone
else's post but MalignD seems exactly right on Pynchon and religion.

                                        P.
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From: <MalignD at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: Re: who's Christian?


> I find this string bizarre on the facts.  If I understand the definitions,
> JBor (and don't we all know that JBor is Rob Jackson an Australian?  Or
not.
> who could care less) is saying an interest in religion does not make one a
> religious writer.  A simple, obvious point.
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> (I am, by the way, an interested reader in theology, , have long been, but
I
> think religion is bunkum, pure superstition and a bizarre, lingering
remnant
> from pre-scientific times.  Does my interest make me religious?  No.)
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> Religion is in GR yet another system, another sieve through which one
reckons
> the world, one that cannot be ignored, given the sort of book P was
writing.
> But is he "religious"?  Is he a man of the faith?  I see no evidence of
that.
>  Certainly not that he's a Christian.
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> As usual, Millison's attacks in this string are personal and hypocritical.
> And, as has become his method, he makes no argument; rather, he buries the
> list in copied and pasted material of varying and questionnable relevance,
> none of it original thought, of which he seems to have little.
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