Damn filthy Hiero-wasp-creatures

Steven · 08 Jan 2008, 17:47 · from 2008-January.txt.gz

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From: mcquaryq at comcast.net (Steven)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:47:22 -0500
Subject: (urth) Damn filthy Hiero-wasp-creatures
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	I've just started Pirate Freedom and have been having similar,  
though more confused thoughts about GW's 'real' religious thought.   
It's hard for me to square a number of items in his many books with  
his professed Catholicism.  Normally, I'd just say:  Well, the author  
is a fantasist and has a writing persona and then, separately,  
there's his real life feelings.  But GW seems to purposefully entwine  
the two and it makes me wonder at the value he places on belief.  Or  
am I just a dupe, falling for the seeming veritas of his writing?

	Any thoughts?  I'm a Spinozist myself and have no ax to grind in the  
dogma wars.


On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:37 AM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

>  If Wolfe's work is any indicator of his
> religious leanings, he seems to regard the concept of religious  
> sacrifice in
> a favorable light.

Steven
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