Pynchon and Catholicism

[David Morris]

So, to condense, Eric argues that Catholic pan-hate resulted in less
self-hate?  Isn't that what is called "projection" these days?

Doesn't that define Trumpism?

David Morris

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 3:36 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eric Fromm in *Escape From Freedom* says that the feeling of
> 'predestination" ala Luther and Calvin although present in
> Acquinas' Catholicism because of the understanding of God's omniscience is
> very different, producing avery different
> character structure overall.
>
> He quotes Acquinas cutely: Aquinas saying doing extra good things
> sort speeds up predestination of oneself. (my paraphrase).
>
> Anyway, unlike the self-hating Protestants---they had to in order to
> hate so many others so totally, Eric says--Catholics hated themselves less
> (in general).