I'm gonna ask the question....

[Ian Livingston]

Setting aside personal faith and claims to religious orientation, I
would say anyone educated anywhere in the West after about 500 CE is
Christian, at least in their thinking. Watching Western Buddhists
loudly proclaiming that they are Buddhists and nothing else, while
they set about reducing everything to binary terms of good and evil is
downright comical. Even if by some miracle (!) someone made it through
some occidental education w/o hearing the Jesus myth, their teachers
(and theirs and so on) were taught by the same system of thought. It
will take millennia, not just generations, to get past Constantine's
endowment to Europe.

Thus, it doesn't really matter, does it? It just is.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>And I'm going to be difficult and ask those
>>gaddisites who may know not to answer....
>
> I'm going to answer because my answer is "I don't know".
>
> And to be honest, I don't care.
>
> There is a man in _T R_ who proclaims his religion. I am bridled from
> revealing it, but it is funny.
>
> A-and as far as I am concerned, that's Gaddis' religion: comedy.
>
> etb
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> And I'm going to be difficult and ask those
>> gaddisites who may know not to answer....
>>
>> Spoiler.
>>
>> Let's see what the reading brings.
>>
>> So far, I'd say he's anti-Christian BUT it has
>> been said of John Milton, Christian, he was on
>> Satan's side in his major work.....
>>
>> And then there is Gaddis Eliot love----
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
>> To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 10:10:34 PM
>> Subject: I'm gonna ask the question....
>>
>> ...since we're all begging it: is Gaddis a Christian author?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Richard Ryan
>> New York and the World
>> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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>> www.kingstheplay.com
>>
>
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant