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Essentially the novel imagines a Socialist and Humanist world where religion has been suppressed or ignored. People have no history or hope so they often turn to Euthanasia , which is legal. Further there is a "one-world" government that uses Esperanto for its language and ultimately becomes a servant of the Anti-Christ . Where the novel is radically different than Evangelical Christian visions is that there is no Rapture and the only source of salvation is the Roman Catholic Church . Benson conceded other religions had parts of the truth, but he came to believe that only the Catholic Church had the full truth and the means of salvation. This coming to belief came from his conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. His ideas give some sense of aspects of Catholic thought during the pontificate of Pope Pius X and the book is thus admired by those who reject the Second Vatican Council , especially the Society Of Saint Pius X . EXTERNAL LINKS
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