MDDM Ch. 65 strange inconsistencies

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I couldn't disagree more strongly. Job's stance was
based a priori on faith in his god, which he maintained
throughout. The only faith of which Pynchon might possibly
be accused, as revealed in all his collective and uncollected
works, is a faith in his audience to continue to purchase,
read and discuss them- a rather standard American
posture- in order that he should continue to get paid.

I have detected nothing other than neutrality or
worse in his portrayals of religion, and with christianity
the prtrayals are seldom neutral.

In a message dated 7/28/02 1:55:23 PM, millison at online-journalist.com writes:

<<  I've said before in
this forum that I find Pynchon's stance analogous to Job's, sometimes
appearing to rage against a God who lets horrible things happen in creation
but not willing to give up the notion of God, even as his texts show in
abundant detail how humans manage to make life a hell for one another
without any need for God's intervention -- I think there's plenty of
evidence to support such an argument, that P wobbles first one way and then
another and remains exceedingly difficult to pin down but at all times
within a perspective that includes "God" and "existence" in modes other
than specifically "human"  as described in the post-Enlightenment
scientific-materialistic worldview. I think a particular reader's response
to Pynchon's texts  wrt religion and spirituality says as much about  that
reader's location  on the believer/non-believer continuum as it says about
Pynchon's texts.<<