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  "thread": {
    "id": 1239,
    "subject": "Religion and You",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-27T12:13:01+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-27T12:13:01+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0379@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "akt",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-27T12:13:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Religion and You",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Blattid spoke:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 4,
          "text": "That's you, me, and Alex ... is anyone else on this list\nexplicitly\nChristian? (Is _anyone_ but me on this list explicitly"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Catholic?)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Dante, for instance, certainly has his share of great admirers, even\ndevotees, who do not share his theology or metaphysics (Borges frex).\nThe same holds for, say, Eliot (although to a lesser degree, and with\nmore controversy).  I would be surprised to find Wolfe fans who don't\nhave the background to place the references at all, though."
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          "text": "One can be a hobbyist. Like me. I don't believe a word of either\ntestament, but Christianity is my favorite hobby and I'll bet I can\nout-reference the whole damn barroom. (I think Borges was a hobbyist\ntoo, fwiw.)\n\nOh, on another subject, I don't believe Seawrack was \"in love with\" Horn\neither--Endy seems right on the money. I continue to be unpleasantly\nsurprised at the seeming sketchiness and hastiness of an ending that\nbundles everyone (a bunch of near-strangers) off together on a Star Trek\nmission.\n\n-alga\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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