[UA] God and Danielewski

[Kenneth Hite]

>  > On Mon, 11 June 2001, Royal Minister of Stuff wrote:
>>
>>  Actually, by the count I'm doing, the people who did
>>  ring in were all strongly, if that word applies,
>>  agnostic.  No one said anything like: "I'm  a
>>  christian and I'm proud of it"

Well, I wasn't going to participate in yet another tedious 
incarnation of this deeply off-topic thread, but in the face of that 
statement, and bearing in mind the Christian injunction to testify:

I'm a Christian. (For taxonomers, I'm a Presbyterian.) I'm not sure 
how Christian it is to be "proud of it" -- especially since, in my 
case, most of the heavy lifting that made me one was done by other 
people.  Christ had some fairly harsh words for people who were 
"proud" in their religion, but I have less than zero *shame*, and 
immense satisfaction, peace, fulfillment, and what Lewis called Joy, 
in it.

"Hey, Hite, your post is off topic."

Well, *duh.*

Kenneth Hite, LHN

P.S. I thought Danielewski was okay, but far from All That, much less 
the bag of chips.  Admittedly, I skipped around a lot, but as Sam 
Goldwyn once said, "Sleeping isn't an opinion?"  Greg's snide 
comparison with reading Ligotti and then watching BLAIR WITCH may not 
be entirely fair or accurate, but it would likely make for a superior 
experience.

P.P.S. ObUA: I find that mining Christian, and specifically Catholic, 
lore and imagery for horror and "unnatural" stuff pays immense 
dividends IMUAC, but then my players include at least three Catholics 
and a Lutheran.

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