Originally Posted by
sandy14
Orhan Pamuk says that his people's lives seem rather boring to the western mind, because they are so intensly religious
Having spent time in Turkey, I'd say Orhan Pamuk is not correct. His people's lives are not any more intensely religious as Western ones - they are just the same. Sacred, profane and just as hypocritical as their Western counterparts.
Anyone visiting the Church of the Holy Blood in Belgium, or any church in Italy or central Europe would see an intensity of religious belief that would rival that of Turkey.
And the working girls (and boys) of London, Amsterdam and Istanbul tell their own story...
Sorry Orhan, you are wrong.