Ditto. Like Rhonda, I've been buried this semester. I agreed to do an independent study on Milan Kundera, with a really good student (I was hoping she might select Percy. I gave her the options of Percy, DeLillo, or Kundera, and she picked Kundera.) And then one of my colleagues became ill and they spread his work out among some of us. So this semester is a crazy one. I have been reading with interests the posts by Janet and Jim.
Please keep them coming. Maybe next semester--with a promised course release--I'll be able to participate, with another book.
-David
I hope Nancy's arm heals well and quickly and doesn't hold her back too much.
You quote Percy saying that Christians have killed more people in recent centuries that all others put together.This is a fallacy and a pet peeve of mine. True Christians have done a lot of killing. But if you count all of the killing throughout time since Christians have killed infidels of all stripes, it doesn't make a dent in the tens of millions who have died at the hands of G-dless Nazis or Communists. If you want to see deaths calculated in tens of millions and certainly well over a hundred million, you have to go to the real champions, those people who decide they are G-d and who make it illegal to worship anyone, let alone any G-d before them. It is why I try to tell people that atheism is not acceptable. We need G-d for conscience.
But pet peeve aside, welcome aboard and I do wish we could be less lonely here.
Janet
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