Yes, you are right; but it isn't 'God' I'm angry at, because I don't for a second believe there is any supreme being or consciousness responsible for those boys' burning to death, and for Pinjira Begum, 25's, lying there, getting uglier by the day from dying, and listening to the moans coming from the bed a few feet away as her husband makes love to his new wife. I am angry at her cruel husband. I am, metaphorically, angry at 'life,' for doing this to her.
Those who dug the wells that are now poisoning 18 million people didn't know about the arsenic.
But if there were a God on the Christian model, He would have known and allowed it to happen. And Christians insist on worshipping such a model; and, on Pinjira's behalf, (not 'in,' 'on'; I would hardly presume to feel anything 'in' her behalf,) I feel some, shall we say 'impatience,' at the spectacle.
One thing you do have to say for the Christians, though. They describe their deity to a fare thee well, which makes it very easy to judge both whether its existence as described is possible; and whether, postulating the logical absurdity that it were, whether it would deserve the worship it so craves. |
