MDDM Ch. 70 Prolegomena

[David Morris]

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>You can blame religion for all our problems, but that's no different than 
>blaming man and women for all our problems. Kinda like what the Ancient 
>Jews came up when their world went wrong. You can blame Christianity if you 
>like, but it's a fools argument, it's  a sophomore's rant,  bombastic 
>polemics indeed. In M&D, Pynchon puts this sophomore's rant where it 
>belongs, in the mouth of a young lad home from college.

I think the above is a silly statement.  Pynchon could very well have 
identified with this young lad's sentiments when he wrote M&D.  He is in no 
way ridiculed in the text.

I'm sure Pynchon is tolerant of those who are religious, but he is surely 
critical of what religions and the religious ahve done to this planet (see 
the Do Do bird episode in GR).  He certainly examines the Big Questions of 
Religion and the answers provided by various religions and philosophers, but 
there is no evidence that he ascribes to Christianity in any form, nor to 
any other specific religion, IMHO.

David Morris

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