I'm gonna ask the question....

[Charles Frederick Abel]

Hogwash.
 
On 4/12/11 12:45 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> 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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