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[Terrance]

Otto wrote:
> 
> Play the ball, Terrance, not the man, as you've once said.

Pardon me for losing my patients. I may have leaned in with my shoulder,
but my arms were at my sides. But if you want to give me a yellow
card....


> 
> Doug and you want to make P. a writer promoting Christian values, prove that
> with textual evidences from his novels & non-fictional texts, as literary
> discussions should be.
> 
> Otto

Lost me with this one.  I'm not sure that P promotes christian values.
Not even sure what these are. In any event, while I think P's books are
very broad satires of the West (Christianity being sometimes the heart,
sometimes the brain, most interestingly at times the body of the Western
world view) I don't read his books as anti-Christian or anti-religion. 
When I argue that P's books are loaded with Catholic stuff, I say this
only because it's true. It's all over the texts. Saying that because P
fills his text with christian stuff or catholic stuff he is therefore
promoting christian values is a little bit like saying, sports writers
must eat hay in order to write about horse racing.