"...a Pilgrim...Puritan fanatics from the Years of Madness who'd gone to Mars so they could be unhappy in freedom. Rosenberg didn't care what a man's religion was, but nobody on Mars had a right to be so clannish and to deny cooperation as much as New Jerusalem. However, he shook hands politely, relishing the Pilgrim's ill-concealed distaste - they were anti-Semitic too."
-Poul Anderson, "Un-Man" IN The Psychotechnic League (New York, 1981), pp. 31-129 AT III, p. 43.
Even in the Greater Magellanic Cloud, James Blish's John Amalfi has to contend with fundamentalists called Warriors of God.
And Alan Moore's Halo Jones meets the Moabites:
"...they all belong to an ancient Terrestrial puritan cult that forbids everything.
"Obviously, the religion on Moab arrived with the colonists. They all carry this black 'Book' thing full of violent, frightening stories, long since banned on Earth."
-Alan Moore, The Complete Ballad Of Halo Jones (London, 1991), Book Three, 9, p. 1, panel 7, p. 2. panel 1.
(p. 2, panel 1, shows a "Book" with a cross on the cover.)
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Exactly! That quote from Poul Anderson makes it plain he did not think conflicts and the nastier kinds of prejudices would ever truly disappear.
I don't know what Alan Moore himself thinks, but his character Halo Jones reminds me of the hate crazed anti-Christians I've seen online. I have absolutely no doubt some of these fanatics would love to ban the Bible and outlaw Judaism and Christianity.
Ad astra! Sean
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Kaor, Paul!
I have seen your "Testing" comments.
Ad astra! Sean
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