GR Father Rapier's Sermon

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 21 21:14:00 CDT 2003



jbor wrote:
> 
> on 22/4/03 12:07 AM, David Morris wrote:
> 
> > And this hell isn't a "Counterforce Convention."  It is a
> > place where the Counterforce has to face its own guilt for being a part of
> > Their system.
> 
> I don't think it is the Biblical Hell, though it's certainly like a hell. I
> think the section motto from the Gospel of Thomas isn't indicating that
> Jesus put Pirate and Katje "into Hell today", but that in the Gospel of
> Thomas Jesus is revealed as preaching violence against the enemies of the
> Jews rather than just the "Forgive thy Enemy" stuff which eventually made it
> into the Gospels, and so he was a bit of a double-agent and double-double
> agent like Katje, Pirate, Enzian and all the rest (cf. where Katje talks
> about her "dead", i.e. "those who owe their deadness directly to me" 544-5).
> But it's definitely a Convention (538.7), and these are definitely members
> of the Counterforce.

The fragment is bogus. It doesn't exist.



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