The Wizard

Jeff Wilson · 12 Mar 2012, 05:24 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:24:31 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Wizard
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On 3/11/2012 9:39 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> As I've stated boringly to tears, it's the knowledge that Wolfe is a
> catholic that makes me almost certain that either Briah's Jesus wasn't
> the Son of God or Briah's Humanity is fundamentally worse than us. I
> can't envision a world that has already been visited by Christ
> degenerating into Urth. Iow, it's the knowledge that Wolfe is a catholic
> that makes me believe the Christian trappings of Briah are more form
> than substance.

I suppose Urth could be post-Rapture, but really, nothing he describes 
in BotNS is as bad as has happened on our post-Crucifixion earth. 19th 
and 20th century Asia in particular endured a string of large scale 
atrocities, one of which is still going on strong in the DPRK where 
Wolfe must have personally met some of its future victims.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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