Status Updates From Our Lady of the Artilects

A PROPHESIED APOCALYPSE (in both the popular and Greek sense of the word) GOING BACK TO FATIMA HELD IN SECRET DOCUMENTS INSIDE THE VATICAN NOW BEING FULFILLED IN THE SYNTHETIC POPULATION!

This novel was made for me.

“One more thing, Father, before you retire,” the [possessed] synth called after him. “If this is real – if your species has done what we suspect – consider what His response might be,” said the synth looking up at the high altar. “It would make our rebellion almost trivial by comparison.”

A couple of chapters in and we have a reborn Holy Roman Empire in a future Earth with ultra-fast vacuum travel pods, synthetic humanoids/synths/androids aka artilects, an exorcist who is also an expert on AIs, and an artilect legitimately possessed by a demon because "Hell" is super intrigued by these artificial humans.

YES! I'm so in.

Needed something on e-book while on the boat.

Starting this book for the third time. Hopefully I actually stick with it.

the surest way to lighten one’s own
burdens was to help another with theirs

The problem with prophecy is whenever we
go to its tomb, the stone is rolled away and we find it empty.”

“‘Beauty is a promise of happiness. ”

“In that reality, everything was knowable. There was no pain, no
judgment. No consequences. It was a pure quest for understanding. The
only thing missing was God. God as love, to be more precise. There was no
love, no hate. Nothing discernibly human at all. It was like the entire
cosmos had been reshaped into a purely aesthetic geometry. That was the
key”

If I am a tool, what of it?
For the carpenter who loves his craft
Must also love his implements.
If he hones me, it is devotion.
If he cleans me, it is tenderness.
And if he puts me gently back into my box when he has finished,
Then I will wait with longing until the next task brings him back.
For if I am a tool, then I am one worth loving.

We didn't build the idea of GOD, your majesty. That is written on every human heart.
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