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                                             October 1, 2010

  The Religion of Reason is
  an idea that seems to come up
  repeatedly in different contexts.
                                                           (Sept 04, 2013)
  The original (as far as I know)
  was in revolutionary France.        Followed up by Auguste
                                      Comte's "Temple of Humanity"
    Ayn Rand in the                   barely a generation later.
    Fountainhead       
    has her "Temple                                    AUGUSTE_COMTE
    of Man".           
                       
       I once stumbled
       across a satire of
       30s skiffy fans, who     (This was in the
       pointificated about      form of radio
       creating a religion      drama, up on
       of science.              archive.org.)                  BIBLES

                                   NERDS_BEYOND
       Then, there's the
       dread name of
       "Scientology"




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