Rejoice, rejoice, for you have all been called

To live and die in service of a greater cause

To offer up your lives

Like wheat before the unforgiving scythe

In holy martyrdom, a willing sacrifice

Keep the faith and reap the harvest

But first you must be fruitful, breed and spread the gospel

And if they will not hear you, then they will learn to fear you

Indoctrinating the youth

Control the future, dictate the truth

Swarming like locusts we spread from the hive

Certain of purpose and single of mind

We are the chosen, children of the Lord

Sworn to spread salvation

Obey, obey, and all will be forgiven

In the act of your contrition you will be absolved

You shall be the vessel from which we shall bring forth

A quiver full of children

Born to inherit and conquer by faith or by force

Inheritors of our design

Messengers of mercy

Arbiters of who is worthy

Armoured by belief

Each of us ready and willing and armed to the teeth

Swarming like locusts we spread from the hive

Certain of purpose and single of mind

We are the chosen, children of the Lord

Sworn to spread salvation by the sermon or the sword

This is how it always happens, faith begets fanaticism

A viral strain of madness bordering on masochism

Conditioned to believe

That we are the chosen

The favoured children, glorious of purpose

Both a blessing and a burden

Commanded to convert

And spread our creed across the Earth

So blessed be the fruit that the Lord shall open

Every seed another soldier

Every womb another weapon

And every honoured mother

Another martyr for the cause