Original sentence: " The latter work criticizes the lust to "belong" to a powerful clique--a common human failing that Lewis believed was the basis for people being seduced into power-hungry and spiritually twisted movements.(A Scudder-like dictatorship complete with sexual slavery for selected fertile women would later become the setting of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985).) Heinlein's  novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) features two cults: the "Dionysian Church of the New Revelation, Fosterite", and the protagonist Valentine Michael Smith's own "Church of All Worlds".A leading figure in his early "Future History" series (see If This Goes On--, a short novel published in Revolt in 2100 (1953)), Nehemiah Scudder, a religious "prophet", becomes dictator of the United States.Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor (1999) presents Tender Branson as the last surviving member of the fictional Creedish Church/cult.Gore Vidal's Messiah (1955) depicts the rise of a cult leader, while Vidal's Kalki (1978), a science-fiction novel, recounts how a small but scientifically adept fictitious cult kills off the entire human race by means of germ warfare.In Elizabeth Hand's Waking the Moon (1994), the heroine battles against a Goddess-worshipping cult led by a radical feminist with supernatural powers and a penchant for human sacrifice.In That Hideous Strength (1945), C.In William Campbell Gault's Sweet Wild Wench (Fawcett, 1956), L.Some commentators have interpreted this head, who/which plots to turn the Earth into a dead world like the Moon,  as a symbol of secularism and materialism
Edited sentence: " The latter work criticizes the lust to "belong" to a powerful clique — a common human failing that Lewis believed was the basis for people being seduced into power-hungry and spiritually twisted movements.(A Scudder-like dictatorship complete with sexual slavery for selected fertile women would later become the setting of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.) Heinlein's  novel Stranger in a Strange Land features two cults: the "Dionysian Church of the New Revelation, Fosterite", and the protagonist Valentine Michael Smith's own "Church of All Worlds".A leading figure in his early "Future History" series (see If This Goes On--, a short novel published in Revolt in 2100), Nehemiah Scudder, a religious "prophet", becomes dictator of the United States.Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor presents Tender Branson as the last surviving member of the fictional Creedish Church/cult.Gore Vidal's Messiah depicts the rise of a cult leader, while Vidal's Kalki, a science-fiction novel, recounts how a small but scientifically adept fictitious cult kills off the entire human race by means of germ warfare.In Elizabeth Hand's Waking the Moon, the heroine battles against a Goddess-worshipping cult led by a radical feminist with supernatural powers and a penchant for human sacrifice.In That Hideous Strength, C.In William Campbell Gault's Sweet Wild Wench, L.Some commentators have interpreted this head, who/which plots to turn the Earth into a dead world like the Moon, as a symbol of secularism and materialism