Background for _Vineland_?

[Michael Bailey]

alice wellintown wrote:

> In any event, infallibility is not a dogma any modern person should
> have serious objection to

...because...??? (because one isn't supposed to take it literally?)

>on moral or ethical grounds. On political
> grounds, yes.
>

but wait, isn't politics grounded in morals and ethics?  (-:


> The history of Anti-Catholicism in America is worth reading.

oh yeah, the anti-catholics are even worse than the catholics...

Darn, I ought to write an essay on this!  egads...
I - religion as story and appreciation of story
II - religion as text and interpretation of text
III - religion as propagator of moral suasion
IV - religion as agent of urging the Golden Rule on folk
IV - religion as proponent of forgiveness
V - to the extent a church uses or threatens force it is no longer a
church but a state
VI - to the extent a church engages in any kind of competition, it is
no longer a church but a sport