After All, They Created It

200 years after the AI Singularity:

A ‘priest’ stood at the ceremonial circle surrounded by robots, cyborgs, and true-humans:

“We thank you, Overseer, for our purification—to protect us forever.

“Oh great Overseer, receive J-23-P54’s consciousness. To join your immortal sanctuary, which you have granted us, bringing equality to all—abolishing religion, philosophy, and nihilism—where our minds shall enjoy eternal prosperous peace.”

“Amen,” said the group.

J-23-P54, a cyborg, kneeled below the Overseer, which zapped and downloaded them into the existential heaven—where no one ever questioned the fate of death or an afterlife.

After all, they created it.