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   From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:19:38 -0400, VD   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:04:52 +0800, Robert Bannister wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >> I was referring to the review given in the link above where the writer   
   >> expresses the view that any fantasy that does not include Christianity   
   >> does not deserve the name.   
   >   
   >If you determine   
   >   
   >"...Mr. Grossman has written on his weblog that he is an atheist,   
   >which theological position does not foster hopes that he will have   
   >grasped the heart and goals of the fantasy tradition within English   
   >literature. All of that tradition’s historic ‘Greats,’ after all, from   
   >Coleridge through the Inklings, were devotional Christians whose   
   >profound and relatively esoteric faith informed their work and give   
   >the genre its distinctive features and flavors"...   
   >   
   >...to mean that "any fantasy that does not include Christianity   
   > does not deserve the name..."   
   >   
   > I would disagree.   
      
        But the reviewer's view does get into True Scotsman territory.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)