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[Richard Ryan]

Christianity has characteristically been regarded as either a radical
and inspired re-vision of Judaism or a grotesque and heretical
spin-off of it.  You're right, Ed, that the
Judaism>Catholicism>Protestantism sequence traces the distorted copy
of a distorted copy.



On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM,  <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
> TR
>
> I get the impression Judaism was in part a streamlined monotheism meme that
> spread relatively well
> drawing from various tribal myths
>
> . . .then a "copy" or Jewish cult aka Christianity/Catholicism arose
> (rejecting certain aspects of "original")
>
> . . .then a "copy" called Protestantism arose (rejecting certain aspects of
> "original")
>
> . . .also a "copy" came about called Islam (uhh I am nervous about
> mentioning that one)
>
> Prophets typically hate phonies so Gaddis has that quality
>
> Just before GR's balloon scene (cannot find my copy right now) Pynchon goes
> into some detail on his
> family's involvement with the Salem witch trials and I bet some of those
> accusers considered themselves
> prophets
>
> ed



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