# X? *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Jun 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *21 Jun 1997, 10:06* Ratty, I define a Christian as someone who believes that he or she will attain eternal salvation through Jesus Christ. Severian has never heard of Jesus Christ, and he himself has brought salvation (through destruction) to Urth. How does that make him a Christian (please don't cite Wolfe's interview since he isn't here to defend what he actually meant, and I think we'd agree that he is tricky)? Perhaps you are using Christian in the old-fashioned sense of being a good person, or "one of us." I can't accept that, having known many good people of other faiths (or none). I can accept Severian as a Christ avatar, however. (This really belongs in the other group, doesn't it?) mantis, May I have one of my four questions that didn't get used? Not the one about Hy's scarf---it's easy to see that only straightforward questions work. You can choose---want me to e-mail them? -alga- ---