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   XPost: alt.magic.secrets   
   From: bleablah@mume.invalid   
      
   It happens that David DeLaney formulated :   
   > 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   
      
   > http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/Harry_Potter_and_the_Metho   
   s_of_Rationality   
      
      
   If you had background and a real understanding of Harry Potter fandom,   
   it would strike you how little the fandom has anything to do with the   
   alchemical symbolism of the books. This fact alone explodes your True   
   Scotsman gibberish and your reference to this silly fan fiction   
   website.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)