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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: (Worst) Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:22:29 -0700
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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:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
Does Thuggee register as a Republican?

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