Lex and Brian, A+, but both of you would benefit if you could dialog with a mystic who can write something like this: O God, if I worship you in fear of hell, burn me in hell. If I worship you in hope of paradise, shut me out from paradise. But if I worship you for your own sake, do not withhold from me your everlasting beauty. —Rábi‘a (717–801), Islamic mystic and poet,(reply>), More fiction, like all religious texts