Re: catcher copies( Religion aproach)

Arthur Muhlenberg (holden@rocketmail.com)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:30:30 -0700 (PDT) 

Rod,
I must to agree with yours consistent arguments but you forgot the
most important thing: Holden hates the religion concept and in special
the christianism. Remenber when he meet a christian boy ( a tennis
enthusiast) in the Woolbridge(?) College? That's the point!

Bye



---Rod Lobaugh <ral@xc.org> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> > so  I worry about how the
> > question of holden's christianity might be presented.  I've always
felt
> > that the beauty of holden's character is that beneath all the
mucking
> > around and searching, there's a person who is very admirable in
some ways
> > most religions would praise...will
> > 
> >
> I generally hate finding christ in every piece of literature.  I 
> think it's imaginary most the time.  but anyway,
> 
> I agree with will here, but this whole question of "christian 
> standard" is a confusing one.  conservative christian standard?  
> liberal christian standard?  southern christian standard?  the list 
> goes on.  Of course there's the "christ-like standard" in which case 
> I think from what I know of JC from the sacred text would suggest a 
> non-condemning, hand out stretched to Holden.  I guess by a JC 
> standard, holden would be someone that doesn't know him yet.  That 
> seems to be the great distinction.
> 
> I think Salinger spotted this to some extent though.  Or Holden did.
 
> He liked Jesus, hated the disciples.  The disciples were dumb and 
> quick to judge, Jesus was quite opposite.  Now if Holden would have 
> got a little farther and maybe looked a little deeper, he would have 
> seen the change in the apostles in the book of Acts.  But the point 
> is, their "christian standard" (though christian wasn't used then) 
> was to turn away the blind man who wanted to see JC.  JC turned and 
> opened his eyes.
> 
> But then again just talking about these things in a positive tone of 
> voice is likely to get me impaled these days so, I'll leave it at 
> that.
> 
> Rod 
>    
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    "And forget, don't regret to find love and happiness,
>     Unless you are willing to be strong when they're gone,
>     Along the Way" - Bad Religion
> 

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