Religions present themselves to us as ab original, as a priori:

but were we to circle the world like satellites, thousands of

 miles above the earth in the Clarke Belt – and were the advent

 of relgions to flare like sunspots on the surface of the globe –

the world would appear to to us be aflame, in spits and starts, from

 

east to west without ceasing.  One such religion (or cult, to give failed

religions the name that history bestows upon them in hindsight)

is the White Jumper Cult. White Jumper Cult founder Annette

de la Deluge believed that she could immanetize the eschaton

by wearing a white plastic jumper, and encouraged her devotees

 

to to the same. But the eschaton, alas, remained emphatically

 

unimmanetized just the same; a consumation that proved

 

every bit as discouraging to the upstart messiah as it did

 

calmng to we, the great unwashed.