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You could just as well ask "How Catholic is the Catholic Church?"
Obviously there are parallels with other religions in this or that
aspect. It's the whole package that is at issue. I can't imagine that
any reader has said, "Oh! You think the Chapter seems like a twisted
version of Catholic Church? I hadn't thought of that."<br>
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<div>Naturally there are elements in the liturgy and priestly
celibacy. But the Catholic liturgy did not spring forth fully formed
either, and priestly celibacy is not a uniquely Christian practice
either (many Buddhist groups, um...Vestal Virgins...have to be others
as well).<br>
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the other hand, it is possible for a "Catholic Church" to have been
established in the Commonwealth without a Jesus (complete with crosses)
merely in correspondence to the vibrations of our Universe, just as in
Green's dimension (There Are Doors) grooms wear black at weddings only
because they do it in Lara's dimension.<br>
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In that case, the Chapter is a parody of an echo. But somehow I find
that less satisfying.<br>
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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:36 AM, James Wynn<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Wolfe undermine the idea that Urth's universe has no Jesus in "The<br>
Book of the Long Sun"? Lemur told Silk that Scylla founded the Chapter
as a<br>
"parody of the state religion of her own whorl". I suppose it is
possible to<br>
claim that that "state religion" was not Catholicism, but I don't know
why<br>
anyone would bother.<br>
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