A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, volume 3) by James Blish

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A Jesuit little inhibited by actual Catholic doctrine wrestles with his fear newly-contacted aliens are a Satanic creation.

A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, volume 3) by James Blish

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Philip Henry Gosse was of a Protestant religious sect called the Plymouth Brethren. In addition to authoring Omphalos, he also hated Christmas and the Catholic Church.

On the subject of all feasts of the Church he held views of an almost grotesque peculiarity. He looked upon each of them as nugatory and worthless, but the keeping of Christmas appeared to him by far the most hateful, and nothing less than an act of idolatry. ”The very word is Popish,” he used to exclaim, “Christ’s Mass!” pursing up his lips with the gesture of one who tastes assafoetida by accident.

-- Edmund Gosse, writing about his father in Fathers and Sons