[HN Gopher] Orphan Utopia: John Ballou Newbrough's desert colony...
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       Orphan Utopia: John Ballou Newbrough's desert colony (2017)
        
       Author : not-now
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2021-05-16 18:11 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.cabinetmagazine.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cabinetmagazine.org)
        
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       | not-now wrote:
       | I got this from The Browser newsletter, which summarizes:
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       |  _The twelve adherents of Faithism, perhaps the smallest religion
       | in the world, hold weekly prayer meetings on Skype to study their
       | holy book, Oahspe, dictated by angels in 1881 to a New York
       | dentist called John Ballou Newbrough. Newbrough's first followers
       | set up a vegetarian commune in New Mexico to raise 10,000
       | orphaned babies, but collected only 28._
       | 
       | The Wikipedia page is suprisingly detailed:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahspe:_A_New_Bible and includes
       | interesting links like
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       | http://oahspecollegeuniversity.com/
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       | and the rather remarkable
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3KsIRoTugs
        
       | xbar wrote:
       | Why do I feel like Cormack McCarthy owes me a novel about Oahspe?
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       | Cough up, Cormack!
        
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