Corm'c McCarthy

>>9398936

Man out running destruction or man causing destruction? I've only read two of his novels but I'm currently reading Blood Meridian and that's the impression I get from one of the themes.

>>9398943
>outrunning
Perhaps, but I think this is shown to be futile on BM, its focus on the landscape suggesting an immense cosmic/geologic scale which overwhelms man and consumes him

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>>9398936
>Christian themes
>In McCarthy

>>9399775
>implying you know anything about Gnosticism

>>9399902
>Do you believe in the Christian God
>No
>Do you believe that Jesus was divine
>No, but trust me I'm Christian
>You
I strongly object to all Gnostics being categorised as Christian since many of them deny the very fundamental tenets that you have to believe in order to be a Christian.
If you had merely said Gnostic themes I would have been okay with that but saying Christian/Gnostic is like saying Jewish/Christian in regards to something like docetic belifes regarding Jesus just because there is some overlap. It doesn't make any sense since de facto non-Christians are not going to be docetic.

>>9399978

The tenets of Christianity are as monstrous/alien to our felt experience as the tenets of Scientism.

Belief is the suspension of Mind. If belief is the ticket to Heaven then God is icier than any black hole or other such entities in Scientist Scripture. If the most important aspect of Jesus is Historic personhood and the most important aspect of Divinity is our separation from it, then I think we're dealing with a doubly-damned Creator and a doubly-damned Creation.