[Voice]

[hauptschuss]

Soon will be the day that our lord Jesus was killed on the cross. He was killed for our sins. For our transgressions which brought us further from the devil, further from his light. In this God forsaken place we have been carried far from his light, yet we can still remember that he is there for us. That he will guide us home. If only we

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[rainbwinthedark]

*Dio clears his throat. It sounds more like he's reciting this from memory. His voice is tinged with sarcasm.*

Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them-yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

[hauptschuss]

I would not have taken you for a man of religion.

[rainbwinthedark]

Oh, I'm not. I just read any books that I come across. Of course, the Bible was one of them...and I had a particularly loyal follower who was training to be a priest. I have to be well-versed to be successful.

[hauptschuss]

So you don't believe that which you speak?

[rainbwinthedark]

Not particularly, no.

[hauptschuss]

Then you shouldn't speak things you don't believe.

[rainbwinthedark]

I was merely responding to what you said with an appropriate passage.

Eliza is surprised!

[hauptschuss]

...

Are you sulking because I've chastised you?

[rainbwinthedark]

Sulking? No. Why on earth would I be sulking?

[hauptschuss]

True. It would show a shard of humanity in you. I also might have liked you better.

[rainbwinthedark]

And I gave up any shred of humanity long ago.

[hauptschuss]

How sad for you. Humanity is a beautiful thing.

[rainbwinthedark]

Not in my view. Humanity is flawed and has limits.

[hauptschuss]

And you have been quite short changed. A little humanity might have made you an attractive man once.

[rainbwinthedark]

Ah, but it would have simply aged away. I'm now eternally youthful.

[hauptschuss]

There is more to be said for the heart then the face.