These two weren't the first, there have been many casualties over the last several weeks, and they all have two things in common: Daredevil and a man named Gabriel St. Berg.

A small battle is being waged in the streets: those who are for Daredevil and those who want him stopped. The man who leads the charge against DD, St. Berg, is an outspoken demagogue who hates Daredevil for the mockery of God he represents.

Gabriel is an aging vet of our 1980s conflicts, a former Navy SEAL who found religion atoning for years of clandestine service to our government.  He mounted a war against the crimson clad hero and far sooner than one would expect, there were groups who -- pardon the expression -- were advocates for Daredevil, as well as groups strongly opposing his presence, and a media circus surrounding all of it.  It happened fast, and the debates are heated, often violent...

While Gabriel's war mounts ever further, Matt Murdock has a different sort of religious quandary...

A supervillain (created solely for this story) who went on a killing spree and killed more than twenty random people was sentenced to death some time ago.  Belonging to an arcane religion, the man's request for clergy was ignored -- now he's suing the state.  Matt has chosen to represent him because he believes the man's need for clergy was honest; Matt himself has been praying for a firmer belief in an Almighty (something becoming more and more difficult in his increasingly tragic life).  Daredevil caught him and thus Matt feels responsible for the villain's fate (putting Murdock in a situation like this, where the man's fate is determined and Matt has no control [yet bears responsibility in his own mind], gives a large emotional playground -- never mind the fact the man's resolve and beliefs in a higher being will give Matt some philosophical arguments to weigh).

Gabriel, meanwhile, has been using his Navy SEALs training to follow the masked man...he has discerned DD's identity, yet he doesn't know this.  See, Gabriel is a multiple personality.  One personality knows DD's secret but is keeping it from the others.  The government has known of Gabriel's affliction, and made up a medical excuse for his blackouts, for, all three personalities worked well for them -- with a success rate of varying degrees (from outstanding to incredible).

The irrational fears -- the anger, the outrage, the conflict -- is all a bit over-the-top for those who've banded against Daredevil.  And DD has made a determination: these people, those who've come in contact with Gabriel, are influenced by a force far stronger than that of any normal man!...

The religion trial of the man sentenced to death comes to a close -- the man, and Matt, lose the trial, and the man's death sentence is quickly carried out.  But, in the wake of this, the man's family comes to Nelson and Murdock for another reason: to sue someone they feel is an abomination to religion, someone who is a corrupter of souls, someone who represents a faith not connected to the now-dead convict's, but the faith his family believes, a faith he laughs at in his garish costume.  Yes, the death row convict's family are bringing a civil suit against Daredevil for being a negative symbol of religion and the possible cause for the man's failure in society!

Elsewhere, DD confronts Gabriel and is made aware of the man's illness.  DD's attempt to help him, however, flushes out a being who has been pulling strings from behind-the-scenes -- a being who is an agent of...Mephisto!

To corrupt others through the corrupt (that being Gabriel), this was the great plan of Mephisto.  To create and bring about greater evils through Gabriel's weakness (his multiple personality disorder), that was the way in which Mephisto would strike.  But the simple discovery of this does not end it, and the only ways to stop Gabriel are to cure him or kill him.

Daredevil plans to help Gabriel but fate intervenes: during a demonstration, he is killed.  Daredevil then convinces Mephisto's lackey to let him defend Gabriel's right to have his soul go to the Heavens and not be banished to Hel [Marvel's spelling ] -- DD is eventually granted that permission.

Above, Foggy, at Matt's request (as he still feels responsible), is indeed bringing the civil suit against Daredevil to court.  The family's assertion has held up, and Daredevil has apparently retained a rival law firm, one which has paid for the consulting services of reporter Ben Urich (an idea of Foggy's -- to protect Ben from being forced to take the stand).  Reed Richards, Dr. Strange (part of an arcane religion himself), and various people of the cloth will speak on Daredevil's behalf.

Below, Daredevil defends the Navy man's right to a peaceful eternity; on Earth, friends of Daredevil defend the hero's right to be a sardonic symbol of good.  Below, Daredevil shows that, like most, Gabriel is a result of surroundings, upbringing, environment.  Gabriel made his peace and has tried to atone...but did he need to atone when it was trauma from early childhood that made him what he later became -- a heartless killer.  He could have easily been a superhero.  His corruption is a falsehood.  The corruption of those he touched is false too.  Mephisto resists, despite the logic, which he calls relative only to "humans," but Daredevil points out there is little other logic a man need understand.

In the end, the family of the death row inmate is given aid by the superhero community, in a rare comics moment displaying a true respect and gratitude for the average person.  Gabriel St. Berg gets his peace, and Daredevil is released from the confines of Hel, but the journey back to Earth is one he must make on his own...