re Re: death and afterlife in Pynchon's fiction WAS GR 'Streets'

[Terrance]

pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> I respect your opinion, Otto, having heard it several
> times before, and I also believe that, in showing how
> institutionalized religion produces so many negative
> effects, Pynchon's fiction shows some deep-seated
> hostility towards same.

Can you define what you mean by "institutionalized religion" and provide
a few examples of these?