On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:28:31PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > Oh, nonsense. I'll agree that LotR is compatible with (Tolkien's view > of) Catholic doctrine in some ways, but in fact one of the things I > like about it is the clear *absence* of religion from that world. Who needs religion when the gods still walk the earth? It has always seemed to me that religion is a way of remembering the times when they did just that... and it is necessary because they no longer do. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt