Re "Simone Weil was a Platonist." TRUE Re "She was not particularly enamored
with the Roman Catholic Church":
She came close to being baptised into the RC but the sufferings of her fellow
Jews during WWII led her to stop as she always identified most with those who
suffered most.
Re "bastard shotgun wedding of Christianity and Platonism.":
It's been more profitable than the bastard shotgun wedding of Christianity and
Aristotle!
Re "Weil [had] typical French political affections.":
She started as a Communist but her religious sensibilities meant she lost
interest in "historical materialism" and she hated power politics. Pity she
didn't survive the War as her reflections on the Holocaust would have been
profound.
