According to the survivors, the way they tell it, a sermon was how the slaughter began, but in the end, only believers could thrive in a post-science world. Let us immerse ourselves, and try not to feel too much fear as we behold the nightmare of unreason, the unquestioning murder of knowledge and innocence. Such horrors, but where did it all begin, anyway?

"Scientists have calculated how many humans the Earth can sustain, and it is a mere fraction of how many of us there are. That is why they have begun making these viruses, they have justified what they are doing. They plan to immunize themselves, their best students and political supporters, and then kill everyone else, for the greater good." Father Erasmus spoke the truth to all who had not succumbed to fear.

"What should we do?" Was the question of Advent Annie, which was on everyone's mind.

"Scientists are not anonymous. We have watched them doing this, and over the last few years while they prepare for their final attack, so do we." Father Erasmus held up the sharpened cross.

All the Saviors held up theirs as well.

"Each of you has a target, and on the day of Scientific Announcement, while they are lying to the world again, we shall strike at all the scientists who have immunized themselves. We will not start with them. We will target their families. We will kill every wife, child, mother and friend of each of our target scientists, until only the scientists remain. Then they will tell the truth."

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And it worked, because the scientists, in their calculated morality, were exposed by their fear. All of them were being put together publicly, and the murders called an act of terrorism. It was undeniable that a large-scale organization had tracked and planned to retaliate against the scientists on their day of Scientific Announcement.

While many Saviors were arrested, the rest went out into public and self-immolated. It was important to demonstrate their level of commitment. The scientists were not the kind of human beings the Saviors were, they couldn't contend with true zealotry.

The elections started, and the new virus was released.

Instead of being told what to do, told to mask up and get a shot, more people believed instead what they were shown, not what they were told. The scientists were guilty.

As the pandemic began to decimate the human population, the immortal politicians and scientists who thought they'd inherit the Earth were found by angry mobs. Tradition was to set them on fire and then after their skin was burned off, extinguish them and leave them there like that. It was the least we could do to show them how we felt about scientists and politicians who had betrayed all of humanity.

Some of them escaped, but so did some of the Saviors. In the new world, everyone hunted former scientists and politicians or even family members of theirs. Saviors specialized in it, paid huge bounties. Nowhere was safe, and when they catch you, they will burn you.

"Burn all scientists."