- Written By: ThomasPOV: Jerry, with brief transition to third person POVDeaths: Thalia (1)
Matthew 7:13-14 begins the chapter.
It is immediately followed by a narration paragraph explaining the widely held belief by fundamentalist Christians that most people will go to hell, and the even more common insistence that he's trying to save people from hell, unlike Percy Jackson and Harry Potter (stay tuned for Battle with the Witches).
Jerry's unnamed friend asks him what the most evil band is, and he says Nirvana, because of evil lyrics like "god is gay." He says Kurt Cobain realized what he was doing and killed himself because of it, but this is not a case of Redemption Equals Death for him. Because it was a sin and he caused many to follow in his footsteps, he is now in hell.
Ethan Nakamura vows not to listen to them anymore, and becomes the first Percy Jackson character to convert, despite (or perhaps because) he's apparently canonically a villain.
Jerry briefly talks about how those who repent go to Heaven, before moving on to the next band to complain about- Green Day, which he calls out for supposedly insulting George Bush, the war in Iraq, America and Jesus.
Jerry's followers are impressed, but he's still worried that one of them is a traitor. Said traitor is plotting to kill him, and Jerry helpfully points out that "killing is bad", more specifically adding that "Killing a Christian is a sin]]", as if to justify why he's concerned about people killing his fellow believers when he slaughters many of those who disagree with him.
1 Kings 22:23 talks about false prophets.
Thalia also tries to repent, but Jerry kills her on the spot]. His reasoning is quite twisted. If she's lying, she deserves to die and go to hell, but if she's telling the truth, she'll go to heaven, and it's not a bad thing for her to die (although it IS a bad thing to kill her, as Jerry admitted not long ago), although many Christians, despite believing that they'll go to heaven, do their best to stay alive.
The Prayer Warriors train in the ways of the sword (incidentally, firearms have somehow not become the weapon of choice for most foot soldiers in the Prayer Warriors-verse), because the final battle with Percy Jackson is at hand, and they are Christendom's last line of defense. They believe that if they fall, or if the traitor kills them first, the rest of the world is doomed. The author again points out that killing is wrong unless it's done in the name of Christianity.
The scene shifts to Percy Jackson and his minions, who plan to turn the Prayer Warriors' temple into one for Satan. Percy's slaves agree, with Nico and Bianca Di Angelo's mentioned twice (the former twice in a row), along with Grover Underwood, whose demise in the first chapter has been forgotten about. Get used to this, because it will happen quite often, although one would think that there would be enough minor Percy Jackson characters that the author wouldn't have to recycle names or bring characters Back from the Dead. The five- or rather, three- of them agree to "do the biddings of Satan disguised as Satan."
The chapter ends with the author expressing his belief that the Church of England is a false religious institution and that divorce is a sin.
Next Installment: Satan tells Percy what he needs to do in order to kill Jerry, as well as what will happen if he fails.
