From: Ruth I. Gordon <Druthgo>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:18:52 -0800

Are we speaking of religion or god? Since there is such confusion in the U.S. today--especially among the "values" people, I do wonder if the books which are cited discuss one &/or the other? For instance,
"Bronze Bow" is about as insulting to Jews as any book I know. I expect that's religion--not god. I recall a small part of my annotation about it when I was a student at the School of Librarianship at U.C. Berkeley (we had a school of LIBRARIANSHIP then), "Tough bananas, Daniel, that'll kill your religion."

So much for that.

And my question: Religion or god[s]?

We live in a time of retelling of old stories. For instance, a retelling of the story of Noah takes over 300 pages ( I think) in a translated retelling, but my version of pentateuch takes only eleven--and they include the "These are the generations" etc., etc.

Another question: do we really need these psychological retellings of Greek myth (which is religion), Asian myth (which is religion), testament myth (which is...)

The Very Left Reverend Dr. Ruth Gordon


"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." --Jessica Mitford (191796)
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