Concordances and Characters
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Ruby Goldenberg is the character in Arthur C. Clarke's novel 'The Hammer of God who founds a new religion: Chislam. In 2015 she bursts onto the world stage as Prophet Fatima Magdalene and offers the Three Testaments of the Latter Day Koran as her holy text.

She could be compared with Robert A. Heinlein's character Nehemiah Scudder, a backwoods preacher elected U.S. President in 2012 who then becomes dictator.

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