An alien spaceship arrives in our solar system. The aliens announce that they want to help humanity, but first insist that we renounce all religion before they will gift fabulous technologies that would save the planet and admit humanity into the greater Galactic community. The religious leaders speculate that the aliens may be a modern day manifestation of the Devil and AntiChrist, but the worldly corporate and political leaders see only opportunities. The world is soon divided along religious, who fear that the End of Days has come, and the worldly, who have their eyes on a golden future. The story continues in this, the second book of the trilogy.