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Hela

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21. Prescient, indeed.
Mon May 6, 2024, 12:08 PM
May 2024

"To be sure, the Bible contains the direct words of God. How do we know? The Moral Majority says so. How do they know? They say they know and to doubt it makes you an agent of the Devil. ... Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly."

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Asimov [View all] kairos12 May 2024 OP
Kick Eko May 2024 #1
Against stupidity edhopper May 2024 #2
😢 blm May 2024 #3
What does Professor Seldon predict will come of us? Marcuse May 2024 #4
I have frequently thought that The Pustule is a parallel.... lastlib May 2024 #12
I don't remember the Mule soldierant May 2024 #15
I think he was just as power-hungry.... lastlib May 2024 #17
A long time for me too. soldierant May 2024 #18
I have to read the trilogy every few years. Thank goodness, at my age, I forget a lot of it, so it is almost like Chainfire May 2024 #26
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov Ping Tung May 2024 #5
He was a brilliant man and terrific writer (n/t) PJMcK May 2024 #6
And only smart people say they need learn more ! kimbutgar May 2024 #7
Because it's only they that realize how little they know. triron May 2024 #29
"it's unsafe to be intelligent"... Cambodia. Pol Pot. keithbvadu2 May 2024 #8
There is markodochartaigh May 2024 #9
He must be spinning in his grave. Dave Bowman May 2024 #25
Asimov was a renaissance man bmichaelh May 2024 #10
He was a essentially a one-man 'Book of the Month' club. SeattleVet May 2024 #13
I've been watching some of his old interviews on YouTube. Always fascinating. Midnight Writer May 2024 #19
I had a brief encounter with him in the 80s. Liberal In Texas May 2024 #11
Definitely recommended. H2O Man May 2024 #14
It's scary when 60-64 percent of the American populace can't pass a simple citizenship test. chouchou May 2024 #16
Asimov wrote or edited over 500 books. Cyrano May 2024 #20
Prescient, indeed. Hela May 2024 #21
Want a short example of Asimov's writing/imagination? Cyrano May 2024 #22
I can't believe it Arne May 2024 #27
Ahem LSFL May 2024 #28
We might add, when knowledge is considered subversive, being educated is viewed as a threat. Martin68 May 2024 #23
K & R Celerity May 2024 #24
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