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Fumesucker

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8. Card wasn't always like that..
Fri May 18, 2012, 10:06 PM
May 2012

I remember listening to a tape of Card's "Secular Humanist Revival" and thinking it was utterly brilliant..

http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/06/06/second_secular_humanist_revival_meeting.php

Two decades ago, a saint came before us to preach the American values of a secular nation in the humanist tradition.

His name was Orson Scott Card. He called his preaching the Secular Humanist Revival Meeting. He was a Saint of the Latter Day.

And as time went on the warnings he gave came true. Religion crept into our science classrooms. Children were told how to pray by bureaucrats. Churches were corrupted by government money, corrupting themselves in the process.

Now we are engaged in a great World War, a Crusade between the Christian and the Muslim world, bomb matched by bomb, atrocity by atrocity.

It disappoints me. I kinda liked Card before he went 'round the bend. (nt) Posteritatis Apr 2012 #1
Me too. semillama May 2012 #2
Yeah, I feel the same way Posteritatis May 2012 #3
Card - a quack, a whack, and a hack. . . mzteris May 2012 #4
You might want to re-read the book. TheWraith May 2012 #6
And the initial followups, getting old in mke May 2012 #7
Yep. (nt) Posteritatis May 2012 #9
Nope - mzteris May 2012 #10
Card wasn't always like that.. Fumesucker May 2012 #8
Yeah, pretty much, which is a damn shame. Bolo Boffin May 2012 #5
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