Background for _Vineland_?

[Michael Bailey]

buncha good questions, here's another: that school that Mr Pynchon
sent his son to and donated signed books to, isn't that a Protestant
institution - I'm thinking Episcopal...

anyway, I was just opining - the Immaculate Heart College kind of a
PR3 situation, struck me - I also do a lot of posting and not enough
researching, but the nuns working out a new order of things and then
getting shown the door and that wonderful college, of which I think I
saw that Mary Tyler Moore was an alum, getting closed down, and
liberation theology falling victim to conservatism, and the contras
supported by the right-wing beneficiaries of Vatican conservatism,
gunning down that dude serving Mass, and that wonderful priest who
tried to unionize his brethren getting read the Riot Act by the wicked
Archbishop of Nottingham...

well it's the kind of stuff Protestants protest about, is how it struck me

the jealous guarding of priestly prerogatives, the harsh disciplines
and rigid hierarchies and the chauvinism
(and just perhaps, untoward side effects of celibacy...)

-- like the Senator from Utah who really thought the ERA would spell
the end of the Republic, McIntyres was (the man who squats behind The
Man who works the Soft Machine) the kind of person it's really
tempting to think ill of, the sender of emissaries like Brock Vond...



On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Madeleine Maudlin
<madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suppose I should have also inquired, is Pynchon a Protestant, Aquinian?
>  Again, flying without clicking the links...
>
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Madeleine Maudlin
> <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What's a Protestant do again?  Why be Protestant?
>>
>> I ask because I had reason to consider Christianity for a few minutes
>> yesterday.  Now here's a passing question: you had neoPlatonism in
>> Christianity for what, the first half?  Then Aquinas brought in Aristotle,
>> and made Christianity much, more sane, maybe, kind of like the Protesters
>> did.  Why didn't Aquinas get his own branch of Christianity?  Or did he?
>>  Are there Animist churches of Christ, is that the line they'd be, are?
>>  Animist Catholics?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Michael Bailey
>> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_the_Immaculate_Heart_of_Mary
>>>
>>> Must say (as a Protestant, and you're free to say similar stuff about
>>> John Calvin and most definitely Martin Luther if you're a Catholic)
>>> that McIntyre guy sounds like a real dick!
>>
>>
>



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