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Then into the hall came Argaman, the prophet of the Lord, and said: "Woe unto you people of Babylon, for you have sinned against the Lord. 'What use have I of great buildings,' saith the Lord, 'when my people know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From an Apocryphal Book | 11/3/1962 | See Source »

...people of Babylon heeded not the words of the prophet, and brought harps and timbrel into their hall and played loud music. Then again came Argaman the prophet and said "Woe unto you people of Babylon for you mock the Lord with loud music. Surely your house shall be made a desolation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From an Apocryphal Book | 11/3/1962 | See Source »

...Prophet Moses has a lamentable weakness for nubile girls, and his first mission fails when he tries to ascend to heaven from the top of a breadfruit tree. Instead he falls to earth, breaks his leg, and is carted off to the insane asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black God | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

Freed after five years, Prophet Moses returns to Cockpit Centre with a new revelation: God is black. Moses leads his followers up into the hills to build the Utopian settlement of Hebron with their bare hands. But down in Cockpit Centre, the mockers who always ridiculed Moses are now rapturously following a Marxist messiah who preaches revolution and easily defeats Moses in a marketplace debate. The prophet determines to make amends for his philandering and vainglory as God's son should: through crucifixion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black God | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...Dark Prophet. The Decline of the West first appeared when the last afterglow of 19th century optimism had guttered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gotterdammerung Revisited | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

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