The Sermon

You got used to the shouts and hollers and keening. You got used to the pleading and imploring and begging. Eventually, you got used to the watching, and there was but one more step to the doing. So said our Guide. This much I have to confess - Hear me now!
When the Miracle happened I was a nobody. Even then, It was beautiful. I saw...
I grip my rifle. Not a proper grip, but an embrace. Oh, how cold steel reminds me and cautions me on those times of blasphemy. Yes! Even I was once obsessed with precision. And the arbitrary order of things! How many times I have recanted I cannot recall - but now, the time for undoing has come. I feel it now.
Hear! I saw men and women and children awash with fear. I saw the futile trappings and semblances give way to greater things. Harken Its tidings! I heard and I answered. I knelt and It told me to stand - I prayed and It told me to do. And I did. And all the Chosen did, and It neared. I was once a worker of cold steel but I heard and stood and did. We knew the bindings were futile and they knew, but they chose to resist. Resist It! They were the heralds, like I, but only fear filled their heads as they viewed their success.
Now I raise this necessary evil. It clicks and clacks and already it sags. Repent, sinners! Repent and rejoice! Our brothers are many, and verily, the sinners will know the true meaning of salvation.
Hear! I saw the Guides, the first prophets. They were unnamed, but they didn't need names - our Guides. Heads upon heads upon heads of equines and bovines and canines piled on amalgamated forms of innumerable maws and limbs and eyes, vestigial skins of their lesser existence clinging still upon rotting legs and re-purposed hands of burden adorned in entrails, blind sentience betrayed while our enemies wait with bated breath. Evangelists of futility serving...
They spoke to me. Through no mortal means, surely - I was filled with mortal fear. Fear not! We are angels and prophets. Our mission is true and we ask only for earthly brethren. The unenlightened screamed and blasphemed and they were the first for the feast. I saw the Guides deliver and lo! They grew and salvation was at hand. We are your true saviors, oh mankind.
Oh order! Far too long has this devil oppressed and crushed!
Now, I squeeze, and feel deteriorating mechanisms punch and work. Work no more, they will, for either evil or good, as they too will be saved. As I see darkly our unsaved heathens, I pray that their salvation be quick.
And now my turn has come! Lo and behold! My form crumbles! Soured and rotted is my visage as I approach Its grandeur! Molder and rot, putrify and decompose and degrade and spoil and pollute -my Guide! It devours!
IT cOmEs! it CoMEs! wE hAve truLy sErvd AnD BIrthEd ANd nOurIsHED oUr gOd. WHaT s a bTtTer ffAtte?? ITT coMeS!
0H dec4y!
O cOrRrPtIn!
OuR God oF enTRpYy!
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