Re: Try listening to the real ideas and ignore vitriolic attacks

See below.

Kim Johnson wrote:

>RESPONSE AT BOTTOM
>
The Yogurt of E-mails :).

Seriously, I can see your description fitting /Zooey/ perfectly -- seems
to blend eastern mysticism with the teachings of Christ pretty seamlessly.

But, to me, that's something only someone into eastern mysticism would
do :). Appropriating a separate religious tradition and defining it in
terms of your own is a dogmatic move, as well as asserting that the idea
of "separate religious traditions" is an illusion in itself. The
doctrine that "all religions are one" is still a doctrine, and those who
believe it the most intensely will resent me the most for pointing it
out. Salinger handles his dogmatism with more finesse in the later
stories, but is still very much dogmatic.

So when Daniel says,

>The best art shoves you in a direction you would never have went if at least to
>sail around it. If it is anything less than dogmatic then it becomes academic, how fun.
>
I'm not about to disagree. Doesn't sound too different from what
Flannery O'Connor said about Catholicism and her art. Just don't want
us kidding ourselves about what's going on here.

Jim

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Received on Mon Mar 3 17:36:02 2003