Re: (Worst) Song of Kali by Dan Simmons

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
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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

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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.