they were laboring to produce one book, weeding out “all the pathological symptoms” of the religious past. “We are producing an instrument of Love to be played in all ways,” they said. Many consider it odd that this statement provoked the worst outbreaks of violence against ecumenism. Twenty delegates were recalled by their congregations. One committed suicide by stealing a space frigate and diving it into the sun. Historians estimate the riots took eighty million lives. That works out to about six thousand for each world then in the Landsraad
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