urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 7, Issue 8

PMorris33 at aol.com · 22 Mar 2005, 09:36 · from 2005-March.txt.gz

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From: PMorris33 at aol.com (PMorris33 at aol.com)
Date: Tue Mar 22 09:36:32 2005
Subject: (urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 7, Issue 8
Message-ID: <8b.23c58e6b.2f71b173 at aol.com>

In a message dated 3/22/2005 8:07:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net writes:
Because we've all heard the story before.  All 3 major Western religions 
are built on events in
which either God Himself, or members of the religion with God's approval 
and help, kill bunches
of other people.  The holy books which are taught to us since childhood 
and inform our culture
approve of the killing.  So of course when somebody else comes along and 
says he had to kill a
bunch of people for a supreme being we find nothing unusual.

Was Wolfe thinking of this?  It makes some sense if we view Urth as 
stuck in a sort of pre-Old
Testament mode, when things were done that way.

Enamel
I think this is a very good point.  Sam Harris, perhaps the dean of American 
secularists, has been writing about the peculiar blindnesses of our various 
religious heritages for some time now. it is useful to examine the writings of a 
great fantasist such as Wolfe to see how arbitrary and cruel our own systems 
of belief are.  Or rather how Christianity and Islam can be used by cruel 
people.  

By the way, has anyone in Lupine circles heard about the new book in the 
Latro series?  

Pippen.
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