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Oh
,
he
supposed
the
boy
had
to
come
up
against
human
religions
at
some
point
–
couldn
’
t
be
helped
if
he
was
going
to
spend
the
rest
of
his
life
on
this
dizzy
planet
.
But
,
damn
it
,
it
would
have
been
better
to
wait
until
Mike
was
more
used
to
the
overall
cockeyed
pattern
of
human
behavior
?
and
,
in
any
case
,
certainly
not
Fosterites
as
his
first
experience
!
As
a
devout
agnostic
,
Jubal
consciously
evalued
all
religions
,
from
the
animism
of
the
Kalahari
Bushmen
to
the
most
sober
and
intellectualized
of
the
major
western
faiths
,
as
being
equal
.
But
emotionally
he
disliked
some
more
than
others
?
and
the
Church
of
the
New
Revelation
set
his
teeth
on
edge
.
The
Fosterites
’
flat
-
footed
claim
to
utter
gnosis
through
a
direct
pipeline
to
Heaven
,
their
arrogant
intolerance
implemented
in
open
persecution
of
all
other
religions
wherever
they
were
strong
enough
to
get
away
with
it
,
the
sweaty
football
-
rally
&
sales
-
convention
flavor
of
their
services
–
all
these
ancillary
aspects
depressed
him
.
If
people
must
go
to
church
,
why
the
devil
couldn
’
t
they
be
dignified
about
it
,
like
Catholics
,
Christian
Scientists
,
or
Quakers
?
If
God
existed
(
a
question
concerning
which
Jubal
maintained
a
meticulous
intellectual
neutrality
)
and
if
He
desired
to
be
worshipped
(
a
proposition
which
Jubal
found
inherently
improbable
but
conceivably
possible
in
the
dim
light
of
his
own
ignorance
)
,
then
(
stipulating
affirmatively
both
the
above
)
it
nevertheless
seemed
wildly
unlikely
to
Jubal
to
the
point
of
reductio
ad
absurdum
that
a
God
potent
to
shape
galaxies
would
be
titillated
and
swayed
by
the
whoop
-
te
-
do
nonsense
the
Fosterites
offered
Him
as
"
worship
.
"
But
with
bleak
honesty
Jubal
admitted
to
himself
that
the
Universe
(
correction
:
that
piece
of
the
Universe
he
himself
had
seen
)
might
very
well
be
in
toto
an
example
of
reduction
to
absurdity
.
In
which
case
the
Fosterites
might
be
possessed
of
the
Truth
,
the
exact
Truth
,
and
nothing
but
the
Truth
.
The
Universe
was
a
damned
silly
place
at
best
?
but
the
least
likely
explanation
for
its
existence
was
the
no
-
explanation
of
random
chance
,
the
conceit
that
some
abstract
somethings
"
just
happened
"
to
be
some
atoms
that
"
just
happened
"
to
get
together
in
configurations
which
"
just
happened
"
to
look
like
consistent
laws
and
then
some
of
these
configurations
"
just
happened
"
to
possess
self
-
awareness
and
that
two
such
"
just
happened
"
to
be
the
Man
from
Mars
and
the
other
a
bald
-
headed
old
coot
with
Jubal
himself
inside
.
No
,
Jubal
would
not
buy
the
"
just
happened
"
theory
,
popular
as
it
was
with
men
who
called
themselves
scientists
.
Random
chance
was
not
a
sufficient
explanation
of
the
Universe
–
in
fact
,
random
chance
was
not
sufficient
to
explain
random
chance
;
the
pot
could
not
hold
itself
.
What
then
?
"
Least
hypothesis
"
held
no
place
of
preference
;
Occam
’
s
razor
could
not
slice
the
prime
problem
,
the
Nature
of
the
Mind
of
God
(
might
as
well
call
it
that
to
yourself
,
you
old
scoundrel
;
it
’
s
a
short
,
simple
,
Anglo
-
Saxon
monosyllable
,
not
banned
by
having
four
letters
–
and
as
good
a
tag
for
what
you
don
’
t
understand
as
any
)
.
Was
there
any
basis
for
preferring
any
one
sufficient
hypothesis
over
another
?
When
you
simply
did
not
understand
a
thing
:
No
!
And
Jubal
readily
admitted
to
himself
that
a
long
lifetime
had
left
him
completely
.
and
totally
not
understanding
the
basic
problems
of
the
Universe
.
So
the
Fosterites
might
be
right
.
Jubal
could
not
even
show
that
they
were
probably
wrong
.
But
,
he
reminded
himself
savagely
,
two
things
remained
to
him
–
his
own
taste
and
his
own
pride
.
If
indeed
the
Fosterites
held
a
monopoly
on
Truth
(
as
they
claimed
)
,
if
Heaven
were
open
only
to
Fosterites
,
then
he
,
Jubal
Harshaw
,
gentleman
and
free
citizen
,
preferred
that
eternity
of
pain
.
filled
damnation
promised
to
all
"
sinners
"
who
refused
the
New
Revelation
.
