> PS VB got him self baptized into all the main religions just to be on the
> safe side
That was Thomas Hardy's mother's attitude to baptism -- "It can't do any
harm, and it might do some good" -- the flip-side of Pascal's Wager.
Though I'm surprised that a hard-nosed atheist like you would allow that.
If, of course, the term "allow" applies to anything VB wishes -- I'd sure as
hell be reluctant to come between him and his just (or even unjust) desires.
Or deserts.
R.
(As an aside, if it's pertinent, the pre-eminent British Milton scholar
rivals Patrick in his militant commitment to a denial of the deity.)
{Mind you, and this probably shouldn't be said, about the best in my book
editors of Milton, now in the USA, was taught by the high-school off-shoot
of the London School of Economic Studies. [sic! -- *not the LSE]. And that
bunch of nutters have to be about as off-the-wall as Scientologists.}
|