Pynchon as propaganda

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>>>Death and what happens after, as presented by the chaplains, is
*different*
to the death that the soldiers experience, as represented by the text.<<<

This is a false statement but for some reason you can't see it. That's cool.
It seems like you are bringing an agenda to the text that biases your
reading of this section. I agree with your take on other sections you've
brought into the argument. But, you're simply misreading this passage for
some reason.

>>> It's a simple point. <<<

It's an erroneous point.

>>>(But I'm happy to see that you're apparently over it now and back to your
usual one-line
put-downs.)<<<

I'd be happy too if I were you.

>>>By the way, I never did hear any credible evidence to support the bizarre
claim that "nothingness" is in there with God, death, redemption and
salvation as a central principle of Christian preaching about the passage of
the human soul from life into life after death.<<<

Evidence means nothing to you. You put out the challenge for anyone to give
one stinking example of any Christian theologian in the history of
Christendom using the term nothingness and without even trying I found five.
Interesting to see you bringing up such a minor point for further
discussion.