who's Christian?

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Thu Jun 21 09:25:52 CDT 2001


<<<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.>
 
<<This is not quite right, religion in GR is not yet or but or only one, just 
one of the many things a big book like GR has to address>>>

Are we saying anything different here?  
 
 
<<<But is he "religious"?>  
 
You don't know.>>

True.
 
<<<Is he a man of the faith?  
 
< Again, you have no idea.>>>

I agree. 
 
<<Certainly not that he's a Christian. >>

<<ah, you have something to say. Why not? >>

I'm not saying that he's not; he well may be.  Rather that I don't find that 
his novels provide evidence of it.    

Isn't that clear?

It's perfectly possible that all we're doing here is tripping over the word 
"religious" and it's application.  




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