“What most people don’t realize is that something unprecedented has entered the world. Bang—science—and suddenly a proposition is true because it’s true, Julie, not because its adherents have the biggest churches or the grandest inquisitors or the most weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.”

—  James K. Morrow, book Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 5 (p. 88)

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