As it was for the first 300 or so years of its existence (hi, Tim).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Tim Walters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walters@doubtfulpalace.com">walters@doubtfulpalace.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">>>Although Dan Simmons, in Hyperion, doesn't hesitate to posit a<br>
>>Catholic Church with only a few thousand members.<br>
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> Wolfe himself does, in 'How the Whip Came Back'.<br>
> <a href="http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stories.HowTheWhipCameBack" target="_blank">http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stories.HowTheWhipCameBack</a><br>
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</div>In Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality stories, the "Old Strong Religion"<br>
(by which he means Christianity, if not Catholicism specifically) is an<br>
underground cult.<br>
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Tim Walters | <a href="http://doubtfulpalace.com" target="_blank">http://doubtfulpalace.com</a><br>
</font><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matt +<br><br>There are three arts which are concerned with all things : one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them.<br> Plato (c. 428-348 B.C.), The Republic, bk. X, 601-D<br>
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