On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 15:12, definitely what wrote: > Damien Sullivan writes: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:59:12PM -0800, definitely what wrote: > > I don't see why religion would have anything to do with it... it's a > > classic tale of good versus evil, retold. I doubt a Christian would > > find TRiH more valuable due to its characters. > I'd think less valuable, if not offputting, at least if the Christian let it > out of the "fiction" box. Yahweh is not God, and Satan is not the Devil. > > Are you SURE about that? > I think he was saying that you can either look at tRiH as fiction or religious commentary. If you look at it as just fiction, then the character Yahweh in the book is not the Christian (or Hewbrew) God, and the same for the characters Satan and Lucifer and the Christian Devil. Or you can look at it as religious commentary where these characters are supposed to be the religious figures whose names they bear. Jag