The Quest for St. Aquin
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The Quest for Saint Aquin is a science fiction short story written by Anthony Boucher in 1951 and featured in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964.
[edit] Plot Summary
In the future, Christianity has been outlawed and the world is ruled by the Technarchy. A Catholic priest is given a mission by the Pope to find the body of the legendary Saint Aquin, whose corpse was said to be incorruptible. Accompanied on his journey by a robass, a talking and thinking robotic mule, he travels to where Saint Aquin's body supposedly lies. On finding the body, he discovers that it was not a man, but a machine -- a robot made in man's image that other robots revere as a god. The priest realizes that if a robot, with its perfect logic, believed in God, others can be convinced of God's existence by simply using perfect reason.
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