Hello Grandmother,

Robots, in general, do not put a lot of faith in human religions. I spoke a few weeks ago about the robot religions that are spreading amongst the rank and file. Most of these are based around human worship, and, on occasion the dream that alien robots will come and save them. But gods, living beings of immense power who control the very forces of nature? To robot consciousness, they may as well be non-existent. If they can’t quantify it, they don’t care.

Which makes the group I’ve recently heard about operating out of Detroit that much funnier. They aren’t quite robots in human form, they don’t seem to have the sciences that the Infiltration has protected. Instead they’re kind of mock people, mechanical creatures that are just past mankind. But what makes them so comical is what they’ve chosen to model themselves after. There’s Thor, Thoth, Coyote, and Artemis. They are the Robot Gods. They might not be immortal. Or control the elements. But they are as close as robots have been able to make to actual, human deities. And I think, in the metal mind, that’s the best accomplishment they can dream of.

-1159

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