You people do not have to live like this! the man pleaded. We are humans, made in the image of God. No machine has the right to order us around. The man reached inside his box, no bigger than a foot square, and took out a small black book. Here is the truth. Read it!Before anyone could act, one of the Sentries aimed its red eye at the babbling man, and shot out a deadly energy ray. With a final shout of defiance, the man fell to the ground, dead. The contents of his container spilling out onto the spaceport's floor. Marcellus looked down at the items, so precious to the man: they were copies of The Koran and The Bible.
~ Donald Allen Kirch
