Enough Vollmann Bashing!: A Plea

[Daniel Harper]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 13:32, you wrote:

>
> Considering how many references TRP makes to every concievable
> religious system [and how favorably he speaks of non-Christian spiritual
> systems] I'm not so sure of that "Gnostic Christian" peg, he just knows too
> danm much about magical/magickal history, ritual magic, the Occult and
> Nicholas Nookshaft for me to think of his belief system as being centered
> in Christianity. I think he's probably a lot more like Joseph Campbell in
> his overview of religions, spritual systems, mythology and so forth.

"Brae, your cousin proceeeds unerringly to the Despair at the Core of History, 
-- and the Hope. As Savages commemorate their great Hunts with Dancing, so 
History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ, and how we have far'd. If it is 
undeniably so that he rose from the Dead, then the Event is taken into 
History, and History is redeem'd from the service of Darkness, -- with all 
the secular Consequences, flowing from the Event, design'd and will'd to 
occur."

"Including ev'ry Crusade, Inquisition, Sectarian War, the millions of lives, 
the seas of blood," comments Etelmer. "What happen'd? He liked it so much 
being dead that He couldn't wait to come back and share it with ev'rybody 
else?" (M&D, p 75-76 of the hardcover edition)

Possibly my favorite exchange from that book, because just as the Rev was 
making his comment, I was thinking Ethelmer's.

-- 
No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
--Daniel Harper
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