The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer

[Glenn Scheper]

>> Sorry to have interrupted you in mid-sentence but I got hung up on a
>> word. What is scurvhamism?
>>
>
>		Robert Scurvham had founded, during the
>	reign of Charles I, a sect of most pure Puritans.
>	Their central hangup had to do with predestina-
>	tion. There were two kinds. Nothing for a Scurv-
>	hamite ever happened by accident, Creation was
>	a vast, intricate machine. But one part of it, the
>	Scurvhamite part, ran off the will of God, its prime
>	mover. The rest ran off some opposite Principle,
>	something blind, soulless; a brute automatism
>	that led to eternal death. The idea was to woo the
>	converts into the Godly and purposeful sodality
>	of the Scurvhamite. But somehow those few saved
>	Scurvhamites found themselves looking out into
>	the gaudy clockwork of the doomed with a certain
>	sick and fascinated horror, and this was to prove
>	fatal. One by one the glamorous prospect of
>	annihilation coaxed them over, until there was no
>	one left in the sect, not even Robert Scurvham,
>	who, like the ship's master had been last to go.
>	(Lot 49, p.155)

	And SODALITY? What's sodality...

so·dal·i·ty    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (s-dl-t)
n. pl. so·dal·i·ties 
A society or an association, especially a devotional or charitable society
for the laity in the Roman Catholic Church. 
Fellowship. 


[French sodalité, from Old French, from Latin sodlits, fellowship,
from sodlis, companion. See s(w)e- in Indo-European Roots.] 

sodality

n : people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity"
[syn: brotherhood, fraternity]


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Glenn Scheper
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