(urth) Agia's Weapons

[Daniel Petersen]

Yep, David, you were one of the 'others' I was thinking of.  -DOJP

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:07 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> On 12/20/2011 4:13 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
>
>> Wow, wow, wow.  I can't tell you all how pleased I am that my
>> pagan-gods-fulfilled-in-Christ comment didn't bring down a firestorm.
>>  Quite the reverse!  It seems all who've commented agree Wolfe does this -
>> Gerry wants to then take it in a certain direction, with which the
>> Catholics (and my lily white Protestant butt) disagree.  And that's fine.
>>
>> I would hasten to clarify:  though Wolfe takes this, to me, generous and
>> wise approach that doesn't mean he's not up for some 'ass-kicking for
>> Jesus' sake' (as his fellow Catholic novelist Walker Percy said of his own
>> fiction).  That is, just as much as he weaves this fulfilment motif into
>> his fiction, he also weaves an exposé of the 'evils of religion' (as the
>> late Christopher Hitchens might have said) into his works as well.  I.e. I
>> *do* think he knows that people are often deluded, deceived, and imprisoned
>> by their false religious beliefs, even if there is *some* important truth
>> to aspects of their worldviews.  (I don't think his Catholicism escapes
>> this critique either - if we distinguish between 'eternal truths' and more
>> transitory teachings and practices of the Church, of course, as others have
>> pointed out.)
>>
>
> Hearty agreement on that last point---in fact I may be one of the
> "others." Indeed, I hope I am.
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