(urth) The face of Pas

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Jack Smith <jack.smith.1946 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "I don't think Wolfe the author was so constrained that the state religion
> the Chapter parodied had to be polytheistic. "
> Yes.  I've always taken the parody (of the state religion and of
> Catholicism) to consist of such things as a celibate priesthood, celibate
> nuns who teach children, confession, absolution, last rites, and the voided
> cross.   The original religion does not have to have been polytheistic.

However - since you have (correctly in my opinion) opened up the
can-O-worms of parodied Catholicism - it might be argued that a
polytheistic religion, where all the gods are members of the same
family, could stand as a parody of the relations of the Holy Trinity
in Catholicsm.
-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes