Dear Red America/2024-11-09

original post: Nextdoor

"It is truism that any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young and by killing, locking up or driving underground all heretics… It is the bounden duty of the faithful to do so. The custodians of the True Faith cannot logically admit tolerance of heresy to be a virtue."

– Robert Heinlein, conservative SF author

(exact work and year unconfirmed -- various sources cite this as being from any of several different works, mostly likely 1950s or 1960s but possibly 1940s; I am clearly overdue for a binge-reading of early Heinlein)