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   From: EMAILSeekingHarryPotter@rocketmail.comHERE   
      
   On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:09:09 -0400, David DeLaney wrote:   
      
   > VD  wrote:   
   >>Gene Wirchenko wrote:   
   >>> VD  wrote:   
   >>>>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.   
   >>   
   >>????????   
      
   > http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoTrueScotsman   
      
   I fail to see the relationships if they exist at all.   
      
   > http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/Harry_Potter_and_the_Metho   
   s_of_Rationality   
      
   Sorry, not interested in fan fiction.   
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