GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Tue Apr 22 11:01:08 CDT 2003
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 10:24, Terrance wrote:
>
>
> David Morris wrote:
> >
> > I strongly disagree with this last sentence, although I hear it repeated here
> > from time to time. It DOES parse, and it was meant to parse. I don't mean the
> > book as a whole, but individual sections, like this Hell section, are
> > consistent and nailable, even in the details. Not that you have to...
>
> NOt that you have to, but how about that Heresy Question?
>
> "Others see a Gnostic or Cathar symbol for the Church of Rome, and this
> is generalized to mean any System that cannot tolerate heresy: a system
> which by its nature, must sooner or later fall. We know by now that it
> is also the Rocket."
>
> Lots of Heresy questions in this big book, but this one, it seems to me,
> is the one being debated in the episode under consideration.
are you saying the gnostic/cathar heresy is an illustration of a heresy
with the potential to wreck the system (which is was) but the present
heresy of interest is the "they don't die" heresy, or is there still
another one we need to talk about? Not clear on this.
P.
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