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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: (Worst) Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:22:29 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 10/22/2024 9:33 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:53:59 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
>> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 10/22/24 06:16, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>> Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
>>>>
>>>> Before Simmons scare-mongered about Eurabia (and maybe Nunavut, =
too),
>>>> he wrote a World Fantasy Award-winner denouncing non-assimilated
>>>> Indians' scary religions. What could go wrong? Aside from the call
>>>> for mass murder, I mean?
>>>>
>>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/something-evil
>>>
>>> 	I am hardly a serious worshipper of Kali but Simmons rubbed
>>> me wrong with that story. If he has written in in Pre-WW II days
>>> he might have gotten away with his Euro-Prejudice. Kali is merely
>>> a personification of Time much like Chronos in Euro-myth. The
>>> robbers called Thugs usered her as an excuse for their murderous
>>> banditry.
>>=20
>> I've been wondering if the Supreme Court, as presently constituted,
>> would allow the Thuggee to pursue their undeniably both religious and
>> appalling behavior as being protected by the 1st Amendment. Or if
>> there does exist some limit to what they will accept a religious
>> excuse for.
>>=20
>Does Thuggee register as a Republican?

Hard to say, as I am not sure the Thuggee exist in the USA.

The second Indiana Jones movie, /Indiana Jones and the Temple of
Doom/, involves a revival of what a British officer refers to as "the
Thuggee cult", which is where (I suspect) I get my terminology. The
British, BTW, suppressed this behavior when they took over.

One of the Amphigorey books has Gorey's "The Insect God", which has a
similar situation, in it.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"