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Originally Posted by Victoria
I finished the book just before posting. In thinking more, I felt Greene himself was the real protagonist, and the book was primarily about the nature of people’s religious experience, which he sells a bit short. I found him to be rather reductionist in his treatment of all relationships, but the ideas are engaging.
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Yes, you beat me to this comment about Greene's working out in his own issues. But I'd disagree that he was selling religious experience short, so much as he was deliberately attempting to undermine it, playing Devil's Advocate. Ultimately, I think Greene was a man who believed, but struggled with it throughout his life. Unlike Sarah, who just took a leap - as Maurice rather wished he could:
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For even if this God exists, I thought, and if even you--with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell--can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by shutting the eyes and leaping once and for all: if you are a saint, it's not so difficult to be a saint. It's something He can demand of any of us, leap.
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