Kerista, Robert A. Heinlein, and Stranger in a Strange Land: resolve whom tag by removing hedging
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| Science-fiction author [[Robert A. Heinlein]], in a 1966 letter to his agent [[Lurton Blassingame]], mentioned Kerista in connection with his 1961 novel ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'': | Science-fiction author [[Robert A. Heinlein]], in a 1966 letter to his agent [[Lurton Blassingame]], mentioned Kerista in connection with his 1961 novel ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'': |
| {{quotation|I recently learned that it was considered the "New Testament"—and compulsory reading—of a far-out cult called "Kerista." (Kee-''rist''!). I don't know exactly what "Kerista" is, but its L.A. chapter offered me $100 to speak. (I turned them down.)<ref name="Heinlein Heinlein 1990">{{cite book |last=Heinlein |first=Robert A |author-link=Robert A. Heinlein |editor-last=Heinlein |editor-first=Virginia |editor-link=Virginia Heinlein |title=Grumbles from the grave |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=New York |year=1990 |isbn=9780345362469 |oclc=556652452 |url=https://archive.org/details/grumblesfromgrav00hein}}</ref>}} | {{quotation|I recently learned that it was considered the "New Testament"—and compulsory reading—of a far-out cult called "Kerista." (Kee-''rist''!). I don't know exactly what "Kerista" is, but its L.A. chapter offered me $100 to speak. (I turned them down.)<ref name="Heinlein Heinlein 1990">{{cite book |last=Heinlein |first=Robert A |author-link=Robert A. Heinlein |editor-last=Heinlein |editor-first=Virginia |editor-link=Virginia Heinlein |title=Grumbles from the grave |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=New York |year=1990 |isbn=9780345362469 |oclc=556652452 |url=https://archive.org/details/grumblesfromgrav00hein}}</ref>}} |
| The person who invited Heinlein to speak may have been [[Kerry Thornley]], co-founder of [[Discordianism]], who at the time lived in [[Watts, Los Angeles|Watts]]. Thornley had joined Kerista in 1966 and was known{{by whom|date=December 2017}} to be a lifelong science-fiction fan.<ref name="Cusack 2010">{{cite book |last=Cusack |first=Carole |title=Invented religions : imagination, fiction and faith |publisher=Ashgate |location=Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT |year=2010 |isbn=9780754693604 |oclc=694146872 }}</ref> | The person who invited Heinlein to speak may have been [[Kerry Thornley]], co-founder of [[Discordianism]], who at the time lived in [[Watts, Los Angeles|Watts]]. Thornley had joined Kerista in 1966 and was a lifelong science-fiction fan.<ref name="Cusack 2010">{{cite book |last=Cusack |first=Carole |title=Invented religions : imagination, fiction and faith |publisher=Ashgate |location=Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT |year=2010 |isbn=9780754693604 |oclc=694146872 }}</ref> |
| {{quote|Kerista's polyamorous sexual practice was influenced, as was that of the Church of All Worlds, by Robert A. Heinlein's (1907-88) science-fiction novel ''Stranger in a Strange Land'' (1961), in which the Martian-raised human Michael Valentine Smith founded The Church of All Worlds, preached sexual freedom and the truth of all religions, and is martyred by narrow-minded people who are not ready for freedom.<ref name="Cusack 2010"/>}} | {{quote|Kerista's polyamorous sexual practice was influenced, as was that of the Church of All Worlds, by Robert A. Heinlein's (1907-88) science-fiction novel ''Stranger in a Strange Land'' (1961), in which the Martian-raised human Michael Valentine Smith founded The Church of All Worlds, preached sexual freedom and the truth of all religions, and is martyred by narrow-minded people who are not ready for freedom.<ref name="Cusack 2010"/>}} |
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