“Concerted voices of heartfelt petitions in Arabic all pleading for divine intervention are abruptly silenced as the drone ensures fatalities by injecting a final stab in each of their skulls.”

“Love has no value in the absence of truth.”

“I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.”

“Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.”

“This is why I respect those who are curious about God, but I beware of those who claim to find Him.”

“There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.”

“Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.”

“Eternity is a lie and Chiron was the messenger.”

“Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.”

“What can I do? Pray? Would God allow such agony? Sure he would, they would say. To test your faith. She laughed. My heart is crumbling, she said. But I will not give my last love to an imaginary being.”

“Do you think a sociopath cries to God as they die? Ironic that one counterfeit being would cry out to another for help, said Chiron.”