I'm gonna ask the question....

[Paul Mackin]

On 4/14/2011 12:03 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:
> The Catholic Encyclopedia is available in much more portable format
> here: http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/
> It's a great resource.

Thanks. Glad there's a new version available.  My impression of OLD 
Catholic Encyclopedia was that it was very scholarly and as objective as 
anything is ever likely to be. I was in no position to judge of course. 
   A callow youth if there ever was one.  There never seemed to be any 
glossing over of wickedness in high places.

P


> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net>  wrote:
>> On 4/12/2011 4:08 PM, Erik T. Burns wrote:
>>> A very common reaction to religious chatter!
>> A touchy subject for sure.  More so in America than Europe, where religion
>> is mostly a museum piece (except for new entrants). Correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Where I live religion isn't a very big factor.  There are a few
>> Episcopalians but they keep quiet about it.
>>
>> I sort of got  interested in early Christian history a long time ago.  Don't
>> claim to know that much, but back in the 50s when I was in a TB sanatorium
>> run by the Maryknoll  sisters one of the good ladies provided me with books
>> from the little library they had there.  The selection was limited but one
>> of my favorites was the Catholic Encyclopedia.  She brought it to me volume
>> by volume.  The books were heavy but she was a husky girl. What a stormy
>> past the Church of Rome had had.  Perhaps Gaddis had a similar experience to
>> help develop his interest.
>>
>> P.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>>>> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
>>>>>>>> Thanks to everyone who saw VTM's new production!
>>>>>>>> www.kingstheplay.com
>>>>>>>>
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