Possible Quaker, beginning narrative in a church, with a priest. The priest is a man of god, a good man himself, but knows much, including that god is not good. (though he believes in a god) it is his own good (the man's) that makes his actions good. The lies he spreads about the good of god for instance, are his own doing for the well being of the people.

The author is a pure consequentialist, so that he percieves the reader's interpretation as important to the story. Therefore, he will sacrifice his own pride in describing his own past ignorance, his own limits, no reason to pity himself, only direction and goal.