Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122 Summary

Conscience makes men into cowards, saints and humans, but customs makes all who mangle flesh without qualm or question to mar their certainty of Supreme Service. In the Unholy of Unholies, Dr. Poole glances through the crack between the doors and is both excited and revolted as they leave their seats and begin chasing one another. He says there are limits, but the Arch-Vicar disagrees as he hands Dr. Poole night vision glasses to enable better sight, asking "and you still have doubts about Belial- even after this?" (pg. 102.) After only two generations, people are only permitted to mate for two weeks and then must be punished for having been punished because that is the Law of Belial. There are those who continue with the old-style mating patterns, but these Hots are beaten if they...