jungle hut jesus

Jeff Wilson · 19 Dec 2010, 03:38 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:38:42 -0600
Subject: (urth) jungle hut jesus
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On 12/18/2010 10:38 AM, Son of Witz wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com
> <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>>
>> One more point, all this talk of an "unknown" christ in Severian's
>> Universe just seems wrong, wrong, very wrong. Even though Severian was
>> later conflated with the Conciliator, those early descriptions of the
>> Conciliator are so Christlike as to be absurd, and the jungle hut with
>> those missionaries seems like, you know, such an obvious reference not
>> to a Conciliator but to a Christian missionary system, in our universe.
>> Marc
>>
>
> Yeah.
> Again, it seems sooooooooo obvious I can't believe it is controversial.

I thought it had already been suggested that Christianity had died out 
on Urth
circa the First Empire and never came back, rendering it effectively 
unknown to the Commonwealth.



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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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