<p>I had a mainstream education. I studied literature and law, and Romance languages. You can’t do that without learning an awful lot about Christianity, and without being familiar with the New Testament, any more than you can do it without reading Homer, Sophocles, and Virgil. And I never said anything about “exploring” the Gospels – I studied them, like I studied a whole bunch of stuff. So did Mamet. So, probably, did you at one point or another.</p>
<p>Literary quality matters to me. The Gospels have it; the Shulchan Aruch doesn’t. Have you ever looked at the Shulchan Aruch? It may be “equally interesting” with, say, the tax code, but neither is exactly a source of beauty. </p>
<p>I like a bunch of Mamet’s plays. But if Mamet thinks he knows me, screw him.</p>