I'm gonna ask the question....

[Paul Mackin]

On 4/12/2011 1:29 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:
> 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.

I hadn't read your post yet when I pressed send for my latest but my 
thinking is much along the lines of yours.

P
> 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
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>>
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