A Pynchonian perspective on faith in the Resurrection

[Doug Millison]

jbor:
Enzian's
>faith seems to have been extinguished already by the events he experienced
>as a child: "a positive coming on of cold, a bitter taste growing across the
>palate of love's first hopes." (324)

Many people lose faith after tragic or traumatic events in their lives.
Being abused first by a missionary then by an German colonial probably
reinforced the sense of guilt that his early religious indoctrination
instilled in the boy.  People sometimes wind up blaming God for the evil
that men do.