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...been reading a colleague's article in TIME ("Can Thor Make a Comeback?" Dec. 16) that described how ancient religions have at last found their way to the Internet. There seemed something funny and very American about insisting that eternity must scramble to catch up with progress--God's obligation to gadgets. It is the Stout Cortez Syndrome, the New World habit of needing a procession of new worlds, transformative revelations following upon one another like new-model cars...
...seems as though TIME is being converted into a religious-studies magazine, as an increasing number of cover articles have appeared lately on the topics of God, Jesus and other aspects of religion. Snap out of it! STEVEN ONLEY Bexley, Australia...
...trouble with religion professor William Grassie's statement, "If you believe in an eternal, unchanging God, you'll be in trouble." Just the opposite is true. God is not changing; it is we who are changing in our understanding of God. He is not evolving; it is we who are evolving in our conception of God's redemptive presence in the world. DENA LEE Amherst, Virginia
...interrogations throughout his massive Diaries, Volume One: 1939-1960 (HarperCollins; 1,048 pages; $40). Heroically edited by Katherine Bucknell, the book takes us through Isherwood's first 21 years in California in 901 pages (the glossary alone takes up an additional 93!). Profoundly sane, Isherwood traveled from Garbo to God and back again--by way of the gay underworld--without losing a sense of humor or proportion...
...singular strength of the book is that Isherwood brings this happy mix of earnestness and mischief to the realm where it is most essential and most rare: the search for God. When he determined to dedicate himself to the Swami, he made it plausible by remembering that he "hated anything which sounded like 'religion'" and "had always regarded Vedanta philosophy, or yoga, as the ultimate in mystery-mongering nonsense." Here is the perfect skeptic's guide to faith, in which even the most vaporous of concepts is rendered with a brilliant everyday lucidity ("The Ego...is like...