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Entry: The myths of Simon Blackburn Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_myths_of_simon_blackburn#25269 Post contents: Mr. Cusack, A fine post, but although one could perhaps say in an vague sort of way that Wagner was "produced by the Christian state of mind", we can't really count him on our side. By the end of his life he described himself as a Christian but he really followed a sort of nationalist, vegetarian pseudo-Christianity that he his pals made up, ignoring all the really key Christian dogmas. (For further information see my M.Litt thesis, which argues that Tannhaeuser, Tristan and Isolde, and Parsifal demonstrate his complete inability to grasp the Christian worldview.) Sent at: 2008 07 24