“The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.”

— Robert A. Heinlein , book The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXVIII : “—under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid—”, p. 377

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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