Standard Wolfean Riddle

Lee Berman · 16 Aug 2010, 12:56 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:56:18 -0400
Subject: (urth) Standard Wolfean Riddle
Message-ID: <SNT123-W5497A07FE8CCA10102DCD2CF9B0 at phx.gbl>

>James Wynn: "What happened to Christianity in on Urth?" Answer: There 
>was a Catholic Church and there were saints, but there was no Jesus. 
>Urth is in a gnostic iteration of Briah and Severian is its Christ.

This is essentially my view also. I'm not sure if I would have included
the Catholic Church on Urth, but Dorcas does mention a "rood".

I think it is an interesting thought experiment to consider what the 
Catholic Church would be like without any Jesus. Perhaps Wolfe also.

>From a Christian perspective I find it pretty depressing to think that
after tens of thousands of years of Christ influence Earth would
turn out as bleak as Urth.

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