Christianity and Terrance

[Mike Weaver]

Terrance:
>since the text, according to your postmodernist
>theory,  is only a mirror held up to the reader, are motivated by my
>desire to find a Christian message therein.

It is a commonplace that teenagers for over 100 years have found in Jane Austen
sweet romantic tales which rereading later in life they find not to be the case.
That we can find in books only what we look for, that we can miss whole layers
of meaning which our beliefs or experience cannot comprehend, has nowt to do
with postmodernism - that "according to your postmodernist theory, is only..."
is your dismissive tool. 

Your conviction that religion lies at the heart of P's writing is well
documented and those postings to the list are the textual evidence. There are a
whole bunch of us here for whom humanity, with all its myriad yearnings, is the
core of  P's concerns, and religion is but one aspect of that condition. 


>A very poor argument, but what we expect around these parts. 

You seem to expect the rest of us to accept your conclusions  -"oh ye of little
faith" indeed! A little humility might help.