Re: (Worst) Song of Kali by Dan Simmons

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:
 

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?

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.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"