"The potential for religious hysteria has always been present in the American culture, and this I knew, as my father had rubbed my nose in it from an early age. Father had pointed out to me that the only thing that preserved religious freedom in the United States was not the First Amendment and was not toleranceâŚbut was solely a Mexican standoff between rival religious sects, each sect intolerant, each sect the sole custodian of the âOne True Faithââbut each sect a minority that gave lip service to freedom of religion to keep its own âOne True Faithâ from being persecuted by all the other âTrue Faiths.â"
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Chapter 15, âTorrid Twenties, Threadbare Thirtiesâ (p. 228)
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Robert A. Heinlein
writer, screenwriter, literary critic
1907 â 1988 ¡ United States
Robert Anson Heinlein (7 July 1907 – 8 May 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century.
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