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           Fifty-threerecantedwithintheyear.

           TheO.C.Biblewasdenouncedasaworkproducedby“thehubrisofreason.”Itwassaidthatitspageswerefilledwithaseductiveinterestinlogic.

           Revisionsthatcateredtopopularbigotrybeganappearing.Theserevisionsleanedonacceptedsymbolisms(Cross,Crescent,FeatherRattle,theTwelveSaints,thethinBuddha,andthelike)anditsoonbecameapparentthattheancientsuperstitionsandbeliefshadnotbeenabsorbedbythenewecumenism.

           Halloway’slabelforC.E.T.’sseven-yeareffort—“GalactophasicDeterminism”—wassnappedupbyeagerbillionswhointerpretedtheinitialsG.D.as“God-Damned.”

           C.E.T.ChairmanToureBomoko,aUlemaoftheZensunnisandoneofthefourteendelegateswhoneverrecanted(“TheFourteenSages”ofpopularhistory),appearedtoadmitfinallytheC.E.T.haderred.

           “Weshouldn’thavetriedtocreatenewsymbols,”hesaid.“Weshould’verealizedweweren’tsupposedtointroduceuncertaintiesintoacceptedbelief,thatweweren’tsupposedtostirupcuriosityaboutGod.Wearedailyconfrontedbytheterrifyinginstabilityofallthingshuman,yetwepermitourreligionstogrowmorerigidandcontrolled,moreconformingandoppressive.WhatisthisshadowacrossthehighwayofDivineCommand?Itisawarningthatinstitutionsendure,thatsymbolsendurewhentheirmeaningislost,thatthereisnosummaofallattainableknowledge.