Though a far cry from the Nexus-6 models of Dick's prolific imagination, personal robots seem to be shrugging off their science-fiction trappings and becoming very much a technological reality.

Its goal is to cut off the voice of the Lord, stop the war cry of the saints and remove the presence of God from your midst.

From the sound of that blood-curdling cry, one would have thought someone had thrown me off the truck.