Tuesday, June 16, 2009

All dagger, little cloak

The gloves are off. Paulo Coelho is no more cloaking the Christian message in mystical literature. He is standing on a pulpit and preaching, finally out of the closet with his latest book, The Winner Stands Alone.
What made Coelho intriguing was the Marian influence on his devotion to women (or vice versa), and the intelligent subterfuge in which the world’s hopelessness offered the perfect cloak for the dagger of the Cross to strike right to the heart of the reader. With the new book though, you might as well catch a Sunday sermon.
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