I'm gonna ask the question....

[Erik T. Burns]

A very common reaction to religious chatter!

On Apr 12, 2011, at 20:44, Charles Frederick Abel <cfabel at sfasu.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>>>> New York and the World
>>>>> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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