Lupiverse(es)

Lee Berman · 15 Mar 2012, 12:56 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:56:25 -0400
Subject: (urth) Lupiverse(es)
Message-ID: <SNT123-W46490130117AB70C8647B5CF5E0 at phx.gbl>

>James Wynn: The Apostle Paul, while accepting that offerings to idols are 
>without value, yet asserts that the "gods" to which those offerings are given 
>were actually demons. There's something of this in The Long Sun: The 
>Whorl gods are "daemons". They are also twisted demonic versions of the 
>Olympic gods. There is nothing heretical in Wolfe's proposition that the 
>pagan gods were "real".

But, heresy aside, can such views be considered as leaning toward gnostic?

I had a discussion/debate with James Jordan a long time ago and he professed
a personal belief in "modern" Christian theology. It really bothered him that 
aspects of the Sun Series could be interpreted in a manner which granted reality 
to pagan gods and monsters. (though, ironically, it was from his Wolfe interview
that Wolfe's pagan beliefs are most often quoted)

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