The Stranger, Existence, and Self Righteousness

Towards the end of The Stranger, the main character is sitting in a jail cell, awaiting his death sentence, and is met by a chaplain. The chaplain makes a final plea to the punished man on the comfort of God and his own sin. Then this happens:

Then, I don't know how it was, but something seemed to break inside me, and I started yelling at the top of my voice. I hurled insults at him, I told him not to waste his rotten prayers on me; it was better to burn than to disappear. I'd taken...