![]() ![]() Some Ramblings on Borges, Calvino, and Barth.Truman Capote and David Frost Talk About Sex, Love.This novel, and the others like it, is aimed at reinforcing the faith and behavior of those who use religion as a positive personal and social force, while attempting to improve people the likes of which I’ve alluded to above. From an outsider’s perspective, it baffles me how a multi-billion dollar industry can spring from an individual who was crucified for throwing the money-changers out of the temple, or how members of a religion based on a document eschewing the existing dogma and preaching love and tolerance can use that same document as an attempt to claim automatic moral and legal superiority, while others use it to promote prejudice and justify any political action. Most of the novels I’ve read so far that deal heavily with Christianity have been attempts to rebuke a purely dogmatic or hypocritical approach to the religion. The novel heavily relies on not only knowledge of New Testament stories but a strong pre-existing emotional connection to Christianity. ![]() One problem I ran into reading this was that I’m clearly not part of the audience Douglas was writing to. ![]()
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