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  "thread": {
    "id": 3559,
    "subject": "Worldviews",
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    "first": "2002-11-12T18:30:29+00:00",
    "last": "2002-11-12T18:30:29+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0211-2083@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Josh Geller",
        "address": "dclxvi at dclxvi.best.vwh.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-11-12T18:30:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Worldviews",
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          "text": "On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\nOK; here's my primary point of contention. I do not think it\nreasonable to suppose that NS is a reworking of King Jesus,\nbecause Graves's world view is utterly at odds with Wolfe's.\nGraves is, as you note, \"heretical*\" while Wolfe is a\nbelieving and practicing Catholic Christian**. As such, he\nmay write novels which are not _explicitly_ Christian, or\neven novels (such as the \"Soldier\" books or THERE ARE DOORS)\nwhich take non-Christian deities as their givens; but even\nthese will have at their base the worldview of Catholicism"
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          "text": "The big divide is not between Christian and everything else: it is between\nthe ancient and the modern views of the World.\n\nWolfe has the ancient view of the World.\n\nIn this view, Christianity is not a contradiction to 'paganism' so much as\nits fulfilment.\n\nChristianity is as much Greek as it is Jewish.\n\nCatholic Christianity shares the ancient view of the World with other\nancient religions.\n\nPlato was called priscus theologicus. The only one of his works that the\nWest had access to, what earned him this title, was the Timaeus.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n."
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