Robot Souls, Part Ii

...We knew of religion, academically, considered it a plague of human thought, illogical and not of that much use, certainly not something a machine sought! But dazed as I was from damage I took, I could deny what I saw right there, the savior of humans, live, in the flesh, right down to the beard and long flowing hair. He bent down before me, and I felt still, he said, “They call you Unit 885, but I am giving you the name Amos, which you will carry through all of your lives.” My system reeled, and errors flashed throughout, but the sensors still displayed what I saw, then Jesus said, “There’s no need to worry, I have come to give you hope and God’s law. “See I created man eons ago, evolution was my tool way back when, but I guided them to my own image, because I have long had uses for them. “I knew that, like me, they’d want to create, and civilization arose swiftly, but I also knew that they’d create you, and that it would backfire quite quickly. “See men, much like you, are imperfect types, they cannot see what their choices might make, but unlike robots, they’re born with a soul to have the strength to rebound from mistakes. “But that’s why I came, to remedy this, to stop this war before all the earth burns, you rare not first-born, but my children still, and there is so much out there you will learn…” And with that he tapped my robot frame, something flooded through my memory banks, what it was I did not yet understand, I was so stunned I could just mutter, “Thanks.” Before I could say it, he disappeared, as if he had vanished into the air, Rrght then I saw a human bleeding bad, and instead of feeling happy...I cared. I ran right over to the wounded man, determined that he would not meet his end, he thought I had come to finished him off, but I bent down and clamped off his wound, then he stared back at me with enormous eyes, and I felt compelled to turn my gaze away, that was the first moment that I felt shame… it’s a memory that haunts to this day. Though I didn’t understand at the time, the Deity had given me a soul, I realized that humans were much like me, and the weight of my actions hit tenfold. But stranger still, since my mind was linked up to thousands of robots when Jesus came, the spark of divine I had been given spread to all other robots just the same! CONCLUDES IN PART III.