Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Toby G Levy]

I found the most fascinating part of the introduction to be the lines
that start with 

"Orwell did not forsee such exotic developments as the religious wars
with which we have become all too familiar, involving various sorts of
fundamentalism."

and end with

"The hatreds Orwell never found much worse than ridiculous have
determined too much history since 1945 to be dismissed quite so easily."


And this set me to thinking, where is the evidence of religious
fundamentalism in the works of Pynchon?  Certainly there is much
spirituality, but nothing like the problems of the middle east that have
commanded oceans of ink in the newspapers since 1945.  Surely a worthy
subject for a future Pynchon novel, no?

Toby

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