Yep, David, you were one of the 'others' I was thinking of. -DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:07 PM, David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/20/2011 4:13 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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.)<br>
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Hearty agreement on that last point---in fact I may be one of the "others." Indeed, I hope I am.<br>
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