Traitor to Living by Philip José Farmer

Author:Philip José Farmer [Farmer, Philip José]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780812523973
Google: M7w9PgAACAAJ
Amazon: 0812523970
Barnesnoble: 0812523970
Goodreads: 722534
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 1973-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Orenstein's charges were grave. The commission's re

112 Traitor to the Living port was not complete. Lengthy sections had been suppressed

by the president. He must have known that he

could not keep them quiet forever, but he did not want

to be responsible for their publication.

The committee had located and interviewed Jesus

and Joseph Smith. Jesus had been considerably surprised

and disgusted to find that the gentiles were

worshipping him as a god. His teachings had been intended

for the Jews only.

Joseph Smith had confessed that the famous tablets

of gold on which the Book of Mormon had been inscribed

had never existed. He did insist, however, that

he had penned them while God Himself dictated them.

The tablets were a pious fraud, it was true, but God

had ordered him to tell people that he had found the

tablets so that the true religion would be accepted more

quickly.

Dr. Orenstein was shot and killed by two men as he

stepped out of the station.

A ricocheting 9mm. bullet also killed a ten-year-old

girl on her way home from school.

The two murderers fled in a car, went through a red

light at sixty kilometers per hour, and smashed into a

truck. Forty thousand people attended their funerals,

and a subscription of eighty thousand was raised to

support their survivors. Income tax reduced this to

twenty thousand.

The statement of the Vatican was ingenious and disprovable.

If the sembs did exist, as evidence indicated, then they were also duplicates, as the evidence indicated.

They were not truly the souls of the dead. They

were "electromagnetic shadows." God, for His mysterious

reasons, had allowed them to come into being. But

they were not spirits in heaven, purgatory, or hell. The

faithful could be reassured of that.

The Vatican report mentioned Carfax's theory that

they might be alien sentients posing as the dead, doubtless

for some evil purpose. This theory, the Vatican

said, could be valid. Whatever the truth, it would be

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