Kage Baker - God Quotes

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Doubtless he was going to start bragging about being a god. It went with the profile of this sort of lunatic.

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Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?

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Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

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That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn't you find somebody to worship who isn't a shracking psychopath?

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A missionary may persuade a painted savage to worship a cross rather than an idol; but he will not make laws that send that savage's children to school, where they might learn to make the desert they inhabit another Eden by means of the advanced sciences. He may persuade his flock to love one another for his God's sake, but he'll invariably urge them to slaughter any neighboring tribe that still worships stone idols. This is the failure of religion as a force for the common welfare.

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That wasn't very godly, Alec calls up to him.
And what has God to do with me? Nicholas shouts back. No voices speak to me out of any burning bush. No word at all. Hideous vacancy, monstrous indifference, and a senseless universe!
Well, says Alec cautiously, I would think that was a good thing. Shouldn't you have grown out of this by now? What do you want meaning in the universe for, anyway? Nothing means anything! We're just here to go along for the adventure.

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