America's gnostic religion
pynchonoid
pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 12 10:50:40 CST 2004
The desire to flee Earth, the intensely contradictory
love/hate attitude to the body, the good/evil dualism
-- these staples of evangelical Christian theology are
all characteristics of gnosticism, as well as
prominently featured in Pynchon's fiction.
Read a book about gnosticism -- the Hans Jonas book
that Pynchon may have read, or, better for a more
recent, Bloom's -- and get back to me. What were once
characteristics of a heresy (from the point of view of
the Christian establishment at the time, many
centuries ago) have migrated into the mainstream,
i.e., in the evangelical movement whose 70 million
adherents now dominates Christianity in the U.S.
-Doug, enjoying way too much the novel (for me)
experience of surfing the Web on my new iBook on a
wireless connection via AirPort Extreme, at a
Starbucks, somewhere in America.
>This article has NOTHING to do with GNOSTICISM. The
>guys this article talks
>about HATE gnosticism.
>From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid@[omitted]>
>
>[...] An estimated 70 million Americans call
themselves evangelicals,[...]
>
><http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/05/60minutes/main598218.shtml>
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