James Morrow / This is the Way the World Ends

A book by US sci-fi polemicist James Morrow.

A bitter satire, and a beautifully framed novel, about the end of the world.

Unitarians rejected miracles, worshipped reason, denied the divinity of Jesus Christ, and had serious doubts about the divinity of God. George grew up believing that this was the most plausible of all possible worlds.
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As the mobile survivors passed by, the third-degree burns victims begged to be shot to death..., their owns hands (weeping, pulpy rubble) being useless to the task. "Somebody please kill me," the third-degree burns victims gasped with curious politeness.